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Pages: 632
Authors: Alexandra B Bonds
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of C
Beijing Opera Costumes
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Alexandra B. Bonds
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Focusing on the costumes of Beijing opera, this comprehensive volume provides both theory and analysis of the costumes and the method of selection for the roles
Staging Revolution
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Pages: 307
Authors: Xing Fan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-11 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Staging Revolution refutes the deep-rooted notion that art overtly in the service of politics is by definition devoid of artistic merits. As a prominent compone
Listening to Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Elizabeth Wichmann
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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"[Wichmann's] writing has authority rarely encountered.... Not only a comprehensive study but [a] study of Beijing theater. A marvelous overview, a virtual ency
Soul of Beijing Opera, The
Language: en
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Authors: Ruru Li
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"This book will act as a powerful introduction to the story of Beijing Opera over the course of the twentieth century with a particularly strong emphasis on the