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Author : Cecilia Sieu Ling Zung
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia Sieu Ling Zung and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia S. L. Zung
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia S. L. Zung and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Sieu Ling Zung
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia Sieu Ling Zung and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia S L Zung
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297837463
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia S L Zung and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Cecilia S. L. Zung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia S. L. Zung and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia S. L. Zung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese drama written by Cecilia S. L. Zung and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia S. Zung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849010163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia S. Zung and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese drama : A complete explanatory guide to actions and symbols as seen in the performance of Chinese dramas written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Secrets of Jin-shei written by Alma Alexander and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of women, the jin-shei sisterhood, form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfill their destiny. The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them. An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of Syai, a fantasy kingdom inspired by Imperial China.
Author : Cecilia S. L. Zung
Publisher : Kegan Paul International
ISBN 13 : 9780710312082
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Chinese Drama written by Cecilia S. L. Zung and published by Kegan Paul International. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few westerners understand the symbolism and meaning of China's traditional drama, and even many Chinese today have no detailed knowledge of their cultural heritage. Mei Lan Fang, who specialized in female roles, was the most famous star of Peking Opera and the real life inspiration for Farewell, My Concubine. He collaborated with the author in the preparation of this definitive guide to Chinese dramas that makes the full enjoyment of these performances accessible to all. Contains over ninety photographs illustrating famous costumes, scenes, and performers and numerous plans and drawings.
Author : Xinran Xue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399406663
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Book of Secrets written by Xinran Xue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism inflicted on those working within. Drawing on Jie's own vivid biography of his youth, Xinran pieces together his trajectory as he joins the great hope of the Chinese young – the Communist Party – and becomes a loyal cadre until the late 1970s when, as a chief in the security forces, he makes a decision that will poison his family against him. This is a totally unique behind-the-scenes account of a family torn apart by the Tiananmen Square massacre and the attempts of Jie to finally open up the Chinese system to the people, pieced together from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters.
Author : Charlotte McIvor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303002704X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Interculturalism and Performance Now written by Charlotte McIvor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.
Author : TamaraHeimarck Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544578
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599?652) written by TamaraHeimarck Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. Considering Chen's paintings and prints alongside Chen's romance drama commentaries and prefaces and his collected writings (particularly poetry), Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century. Through analysis of Chen's figure paintings and print designs, Bentley examines the artist's engagement with the values of "authenticity" and "emotion," which were part of a larger discourse stressing idiosyncrasy, the individual voice, and vernacular literature. She contrasts these values with the commercial aspects of his production, geared at an expanding art market of well-to-do buyers, excavating the apparent contradiction inherent in the two pursuits. In the end, she suggests, the emphasis on the "authentic" voice was marketed to a broad field of anonymous buyers. Though her primary focus is on Chen Hongshou, Bentley's investigation ultimately concerns not only this individual artist, but also the effect of early modern changes on an artist's mode of working and his self-image, in the West as well as the East. The study touches upon expanding international trade and the rise of middle class art markets (including print markets), not only in China but also in the Dutch Republic in circa 1630-1650. Bentley investigates the specific rhetoric of different categories of images, including Chen's non-literal figurative works; literal commemorative portraits; his printed romance-drama illustrations; and his printed playing cards. Bentley's investigation takes in issues of studio practice (including various types of image replicati
Author : Tamara Heimarck Bentley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754666721
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) written by Tamara Heimarck Bentley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the late Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. In so doing, Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century, when Chinese scholar artists began to direct their work towards anonymous public markets.
Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047212479X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Passions of Peter Sellars written by Susan McClary and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed—and often controversial—versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho, to create challenging new operas. The Passions of Peter Sellars follows the development of his style, beginning with his interpretations of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, proceeding to works for which he assembled the libretti and even the music, and concluding with his celebrated stagings of Bach’s passions with the Berlin Philharmonic. Many directors leave the musical aspects of opera entirely to the singers and conductor. Sellars, however, immerses himself in the score, and has created a distinctive visual vocabulary to embody musical gesture on stage, drawing on the energies of the music as he shapes characters, ensemble interaction, and large-scale dramatic trajectories. As a leading scholar of gender and music, and the history of opera, Susan McClary is ideally positioned to illuminate Sellars’s goal to address both the social tensions embodied in these operas as well as the spiritual dimensions of operatic performance. McClary considers Sellars’s productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte; Handel’s Theodora; Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise; John C. Adams’s Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño, and Doctor Atomic; Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin, La Passion de Simone, and Only the Sound Remains; Purcell’s The Indian Queen; and Bach’s passions of Saint Matthew and Saint John. Approaching Sellars’s theatrical strategies from a musicological perspective, McClary blends insights from theater, film, and literary scholarship to explore the work of one of the most brilliant living interpreters of opera.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101910089
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
Author : Arthur Waley
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755116046
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Works written by Arthur Waley and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts'en Shen and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yu, but the most compelling is 'The Secret History of the Mongols', with fantastic tales of epic battles; betrayal and love; tyrants and prisoners.
