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Contemporary Chinese Theatre

Roger Howard
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Chinese art
Chinese arts
Chinese perfoming arts
Chinese performance
Chinese poets
Chinese theatre
cultural revolution performance
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performing arts reform
political theatre China
post-1949 stage history
revolutionary opera analysis
socialist realism drama
Theatre in China
workers amateur productions

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367771539
  • Weight: 270g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Chinese theatre underwent a great experiment under the cultural revolution. Using the reformed Beijing operas as models, the whole range of theatre arts, from straight plays to acrobatics and from ballet to ballads saw a profound transformation. Alongside the professional theatre, an upsurge of workers’ and peasants’ amateur theatre stimulated new developments.

This book, first published in 1978, sketches the historical background to these changes and offers a factual survey of the main forms and characteristics of Chinese theatre at the time. It traces the rise of the new drama since 1949 and explores the political principles underlying the reforms. It examines the new amateur theatre and describes typical plays and operas staged in China.

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