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Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China / (Record no. 25892)

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LC control number 2022018196
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International Standard Book Number 9789004519398
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International Standard Book Number 9789004519381
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004519398
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Subject category code SOC
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Classification number 782.10951/38
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chabrowski, Igor Iwo,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Igor Iwo Chabrowski.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2022.
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Series statement China Studies ;
Volume/sequential designation 49
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General note Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profoundtransformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgments -- List of Plates, Table and Maps -- Introduction -- PART 1: Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan -- 1 Development of Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan -- 1 The Role of Opera in Qing Society -- 2 Opera and Construction of the Community -- 3 The Nineteenth-Century Flourishing: The Role of Opera in Shaping Local Religious Practice -- 4 Opera and Shaping of the Material and Social Landscape -- 5 A Market Town: A Temple-Centered Society, An Opera-Centered Society -- 6 The Big City Perspective -- 7 Opera between the Elites and the Commoners -- 8 Opera, Officials, and the Social (Dis)Order -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- PART 2: The New Institutionalization: Law, Market, Politics, and Culture of Commercialized Art, 1902–1937 -- 2 A Transformed Relationship: Theater and Power after the Qing New Policies -- 1 The Three Forces of Change: Destruction of Temples, Commercialization, and the New Legal Order -- 2 New Policies and a Novel Way of Doing Business in Sichuan -- 3 The Protecting Power of Official Greed: Republican Commercial Theater -- 4 Taxing -- 5 Helping Hand -- 6 Women on the Show -- 7 Rectifying Opera -- 3 Commercial Opera: Shaping the City and Shaping the Actors -- 1 Theaters and Urban Zoning: Researching the Social Background of the Audiences -- 2 Early Transformation in the Social and Spatial Geography of Opera -- 3 Republican Theaters and Urban Zoning: Crystallization of the Opera’s Public -- 4 Commercial Theater and Actors’ Careers -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 The Culture of the Commercial Opera -- 1 The Methods of Studying Opera: Troupes, Talent, and Repertoires -- 2 Watching the Commercial Show: How Was It Served? -- 3 Favorite Plays and the Cultural Universe of Sichuan Audiences -- 4 Gods, Emperors, Heroes… -- 5 Time and Place -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Illustration Quire -- PART 3: Creating the New World -- 5 The Divide: Local Intellectuals and the Cultural Conflict -- 1 Commercial Daily ’s Explorations and Experimentations with New Drama -- 2 Dissatisfaction, Estrangement, Elitism, and a Turn to the Left -- 3 Radicalization and Rejection -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- 6 The Times of the Nationalists (1937–1949) and the War -- 1 Performing Arts Culture -- 2 Military Emergency and China’s Migration to the Southwest -- 3 Inventing the Wartime Theater -- 4 Putting Words into Action -- 5 Living through Frustration: Playwrights and the War -- 6 An All Too Visible Context: Sichuan Opera and the War -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- 7 Revolution: Communist “People’s Art” -- 1 Communist Conquest of Sichuan: A New Political Context -- 2 Political and Ideological Basis of the Opera Reform -- 3 Breaking the “Superstitious” Opera -- 4 Adjusting to the New Party-State Policies -- 5 Seizing Control over the Opera Companies -- 6 Opera Becomes Useful to the Communist State -- 7 Policy in Action: Chongqing, 1951–1952 -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Summary, etc. Through an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the complex path of opera over this course of history: exiting the temple festivals, becoming a public obsession on commercial stages, and finally being harnessed to partisan propaganda work. The book analyzes the process of cross-regional integration of Chinese culture and the emergence of the national opera genre. Moreover, opera is shown as an example of the culture wars that raged inside China’s popular culture.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Operas, Chinese
Geographic subdivision China
-- Sichuan Sheng
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Operas, Chinese
General subdivision Social aspects
Geographic subdivision China
-- Sichuan Sheng
General subdivision History.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022
International Standard Book Number 9789004519381
Record control number (DLC) 2022018195
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Uniform title China Studies ;
Volume/sequential designation 49.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004519398">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004519398</a>

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