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Xiaomei Chen Situates Her Study Of Huaju (modern Chinese Drama) Both In The Context Of Chinese Literary And Cultural History And Of Comparative Drama And Theater, Cultural Studies, And Critical Issues Relevant To National Theater Worldwide. Chosen During The Cultural Revolution As The Exclusive Artistic Vehicle To Promote Proletariat Art, 'model Theater' Raises Important Questions About The Complex Relationships Between Women, Memory, Nation/state, Revolution, And Visual Culture. Throughout This Study, Chen Argues That Dramatic Norms Inform Both Theatrical Performance And Everyday Political Behavior In Contemporary China.--page 4 Of Cover. Introduction : Why Not Modern Chinese Drama? -- Operatic Revolutions : Tradition, Memory, And Women In Model Theater -- Family, Village, Nation/state, And The Third World : The Imagined Communities In Model Theater -- Audience, Applause And Actor : Border Crossing In Social Problem Plays -- Performing Tiananmen : From Street Theater To Theater Of The Street -- A Stage Of Their Own : Feminism, Countervoices, And The Problematics Of Women's Theater -- From Discontented Mother To Woman Warrior : Body Politics In Post-maoist Theater -- A Stage In Sea

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Author

Xiaomei Chen; University of Hawaii Press

Publisher

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824822873

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities