Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan - Guo Chao

Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan

Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
250 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-50543-1 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of East Asian/Chinese studies across the fields of theatre, history, culture, and literature.
This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.

Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese history, Guo Chao reflects the transformations in the social zeitgeist in China, especially the politics of gender and sexuality. The breadth of this study reflects a diversified set of sources, ranging from classical to contemporary texts (texts of jingju plays, memoirs, collections of notation books) and other commentaries and critical evaluations of dan actors (in both English and Chinese languages) to video and audio materials, films and personal interviews.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of East Asian/Chinese studies across the fields of theatre, history, culture and literature.

Guo Chao is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He publishes extensively on Chinese history, culture and society in journals such as Asian Theatre Journal, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Gender Studies and Cambridge Opera Journal.

1. Introduction: Chinese traditional theatre and male dan 2. Imaginary romance: The rise of male dan and their connections to the scholar-elite in the Ming dynasty 3. Commodified intimacy: Male dan, boy courtesans and well-off patrons in the Qing dynasty 4. At the dawn of a modern nation: Three keys in male dan 5. Between scholar-intellectuals and theatrical aficionados: Male dan under siege 6. Reinventing disciplinary femininity: Technical innovations of male dan 7. Reconstructing femininity through masculinity: The prohibition of male dan in socialist China 8. The mythopoeia of homosexuality: Aesthetic representations of male dan in contemporary culture 9. A millennial predicament: Male dan in a homophobic country 10. Coda: Male dan and Chinese society in transition

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-367-50543-6 / 0367505436
ISBN-13 978-0-367-50543-1 / 9780367505431
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