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Book Synopsis Selected Plays of Kuan Han-Ching by : Kuan Han-Ching
Download or read book Selected Plays of Kuan Han-Ching written by Kuan Han-Ching and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant playwright Kuan Han-ching, one of the great names of Chinese literature, was the most outstanding dramatist of the Yuan dynasty. After overthrowing the Kingdom of Chin, the Mongols in 1264 set up their capital in Cambaluc. In 1279, after the overthrow of the Southern Sung dynasty, Cambaluc became the political and economic center of the whole of China. Some famous writers in the north founded the Yu-ching Book Society there, and Kuan Han-ching was one of its most active members. In his youth he had been a keen student and learned to write all forms of poetry and song. He soon became well-known in the capital for his versatility, his strong sense of humor, remarkable proficiency in music, dancing and singing, and his skill in the football game then in vogue. From the middle of the thirteenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth was the great age of Yuan drama, when many playwrights of note were assembled in the capital. While there, Kuan Han-ching formed his own company of players and sometimes trod the boards himself. Thus he knew every aspect of the theatre.
Book Synopsis Selected Plays of Kuan Han-ching by : Hanqing Guan
Download or read book Selected Plays of Kuan Han-ching written by Hanqing Guan and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing by : Guan Hanqing
Download or read book Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing written by Guan Hanqing and published by Silk Pagoda. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing eight plays by the magnificent Guan Hanqing, the Shakespeare of China. Hanqing lived in the 13th century, at the height of the Yuan Dynasty. An actor himself, he is said to have written more than 60 plays for the traveling theater groups which flourished on the mainland in those days. His works concerned history, deception, treachery, men, women, and the abuse of official power. Also of note are the powerful and resourceful women he gives in such comedies as Rescued by a Coquette, the portrayals of middle-class life back then, and not a bit of bawdy humor.
Book Synopsis Kuan Han-ching, a Play by : Han Tian
Download or read book Kuan Han-ching, a Play written by Han Tian and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals by :
Download or read book Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250–1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. A marvelous volume.--Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania
Download or read book Theatre News written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue for Feb. 1969 includes Afro-Asian theatre bulletin, v. 4:2, spring 1969.
Book Synopsis Chinese Theater by : Colin Mackerras
Download or read book Chinese Theater written by Colin Mackerras and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the development of Chinese theater by considering all of its major aspects—history and social context, performance, costume, makeup, actors, playwrights, and theaters—and by discussing all the major forms of Chinese theater, including the Beijing opera, which arose in the eighteenth century, and the spoken play, an entirely twentieth-century form. Its contributors are uniquely qualified to write about the Chinese theater. They have enjoyed an intimate relationship with their subject, both as academics and as theater workers, and they have combined a deep knowledge of Chinese theater with a high regard for its long tradition and continuing vitality. The book is intended for general as well as more specialized readers. Those with an interest in theater as a worldwide phenomenon and those wanting a new light on Chinese culture and society will find it equally useful. To those with a particular interest in Chinese theater, it will be a rich and important resource.
Download or read book The Fragile Scholar written by Geng Song and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction of masculinity in the Chinese context from a comparative perspective (Euro-American). Its central thesis is that the concept of "masculinity" in pre-modern China was conceived in the network of hierarchical social and political power in a homosocial context rather than in opposition to "woman." In other words, gender discourse was more power-based than sex-based in pre-modern China, and Chinese masculinity was androgynous in nature. The author explains how the caizi discourse embodied the mediation between elite culture and popular culture by giving voice to the desire, fantasy, wants and tastes of urbanites.
Book Synopsis Affective Narratology by : Patrick Colm Hogan
Download or read book Affective Narratology written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories engage our emotions. We?ve known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes, plots, and genres are a function of emotional processes, he demonstrates that emotion systems are absolutely crucial for understanding stories. Hogan also makes a case for the potentially integral role that stories play in the development of our emotional lives. He provides an in-depth account of the function of emotion within story?in widespread genres with romantic, heroic, and sacrificial structures, and more limited genres treating parent/child separation, sexual pursuit, criminality, and revenge?as these appear in a variety of cross-cultural traditions. In the course of the book Hogan develops interpretations of works ranging from Tolstoy?s Anna Karenina to African oral epics, from Sanskrit comedy to Shakespearean tragedy. Integrating the latest research in affective science with narratology, this book provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization.
Book Synopsis The Judge Pao Plays of the Yuan Dynasty by : George A. Hayden
Download or read book The Judge Pao Plays of the Yuan Dynasty written by George A. Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yuarn Music Dramas by : Dale Johnson
Download or read book Yuarn Music Dramas written by Dale Johnson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii] Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the arias in the northern dramatic style that are found in the 162 titles contained in the Yuarn-chyuu shyuann and the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan waih-bian. It is modeled on several such catalogues compiled over the past six hundred years. [99]
Book Synopsis Acting the Right Part by : Xiaomei Chen
Download or read book Acting the Right Part written by Xiaomei Chen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of Huaju (modern Chinese drama) situated both in the context of Chinese literary and cultural history and in the context of comparative drama and theatre, cultural studies, and critical issues relevant to national theatre worldwide.
Book Synopsis Belles-Lettres by : Hijab Imtiaz Ali
Download or read book Belles-Lettres written by Hijab Imtiaz Ali and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s 'Adab-E-Zareen', an innovative mystical poetic work, replete with symbology, philosophy, and metaphor, is translated from the Urdu for the first time in book form by celebrated English language poet Sascha A. Akhtar. Written in 1936 by this pioneering feminist writer, who was also the first female muslim pilot of the Subcontinent, this work soars to the skies leaving the reader breathless. With this book, Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s work gets a richer perspective, eschewing traditional forms of storytelling of the time and embracing the fragment and poetic prose.
Book Synopsis A Collection of Chinese Maxims by : Yin Haibo
Download or read book A Collection of Chinese Maxims written by Yin Haibo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of Chinese maxims now available in both the original Chinese and in English translation. They cover such diverse topics as government, learning, cultivation of character, affections, and ways of the world. Short and epigrammatic, these maxims are rich of the spirit and culture of China.
Book Synopsis The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt by :
Download or read book The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-chapter novel The Three Sui Quash the Demons’ Revolt is traditionally attributed to Luo Guanzhong (d. after 1364?), the alleged author of two of China’s most famous and beloved works of fiction, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin. The Three Sui tells the story of the uprising of adherents of the Maitreya Buddha led by Wang Ze in 1047–1048. Wang Ze was eventually executed and all future heterodox activity outlawed. Paradoxically, The Three Sui treats the rebellion as an occasion for slapstick, baggy-pants humor in which facts are distorted and wildly mixed with fiction. Wang Ze's real-life lieutenants show up as a comical peddler and a mysterious Daoist priest. A celebrated warrior takes part in the rebellion despite having died seventeen years earlier. Although the novel is divided into chapters and otherwise follows the traditional format for such extended narratives, a careful examination reveals The Three Sui is an arrangement of self-contained vernacular stories. No story bears an intrinsic relationship to any other story. And because the integrity of the various stories has been so remarkably preserved, The Three Sui is a vernacular novel in which the vernacular story reigns supreme. Although the Wang Ze rebellion took place during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), ultimately The Three Sui is the story of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) in Song masquerade. It calls attention to the social unrest, even anarchy, caused by the rising power and influence of movements like The White Lotus Society and warns of the Ming’s downfall unless such groups are contained. In this, the novel proved to be a prescient voice: The Ming collapsed as the result of a central authority weakened by mass sectarian uprisings. The Three Sui has been little known and sadly overlooked by scholars of Chinese literature and history. Now this vibrant translation and insightful interpretive essay make this early example of Chinese vernacular fiction available to a broad audience interested in comparative literature and fiction.
Book Synopsis Chinese Literature by : William McNaughton
Download or read book Chinese Literature written by William McNaughton and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three thousand years of Chinese literature have been gathered together in Chinese Literature: An Anthology from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. The earliest preserved folk songs of the peasantry; the major works of the "Golden Age" of Chinese philosophy; the "prose-songs" and the later skillful poems of the T'ang dynasty ; the short stories and plays; the novels; and the poems and stories of men who have made modern China - all these are represented in this anthology, in complete works or in excerpts. Editor William McNaughton presents Chinese literature as an organic development, so that the student as well as the general reader can see how genre evolved into genre and form developed into form. He has based this presentationon work by Chinese critics and scholars that, until recently, has not been available outside China. In addition to classical writings, the poems and stories by twentieth-century writers, most of which have been newly translated into English, give new insights into modern Chinese society and individuals, and make this the most complete one-volume anthology ever published.
Book Synopsis An Encyclopaedia of Translation by : Sin-wai Chan
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Translation written by Sin-wai Chan and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language-specific entries relate to the interaction between the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking communities of Hong Kong. At the same time, the work draws on Western knowledge and experience with translation studies in general. This book is a valuable reference for translators, scholars, and students of translation studies.
