Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
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This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressing as male characters for a largely female audience.
Yue opera originated in the Zhejiang countryside as a form of story-singing, which rural...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0295988444
ISBN13:9780295988443
Release Date:March 2009
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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