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Author | : Fan-Pen Li Chen |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0773531971 |
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Author | : Grant Hayter-Menzies |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773589090 |
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
Author | : Fan-Pen Li Chen |
Publisher | : Cornell East Asia Series |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.
Author | : Qilin Liu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Folk art |
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Author | : Sven Broman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789185344024 |
Author | : Sebastian Strangio |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300234031 |
A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economic, political, military, and cultural. As China seeks to restore its former status as Asia's preeminent power, the countries of Southeast Asia face an increasingly stark choice: flourish within Beijing's orbit or languish outside of it. Meanwhile, as rival powers including the United States take concerted action to curb Chinese ambitions, the region has emerged as an arena of heated strategic competition. Drawing on more than a decade of on-the-ground experience, Sebastian Strangio explores the impacts of China's rise on Southeast Asia, the varied ways in which the countries of the region are responding, and what it might mean for the future balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
Author | : Sven Broman |
Publisher | : White Orchid Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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Author | : Berthold Laufer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Oriental drama |
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Author | : Deborah S. Meader |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 193? |
Genre | : Shadow shows |
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Author | : Lotte Reiniger |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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