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Opera And The City : The Politics Of Culture In Beijing, 1770-1900 / Andrea S. Goldman.

By: Goldman, Andrea S. (Andrea Sue) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Stanford,California Stanford University Press 2012Description: xv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780804778312 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Operas, Chinese -- History and criticism | Opera -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing | Opera -- Political aspects -- China -- Beijing | Beijing (China) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Beijing (China) -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 782.10951/156
Contents:
Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Non-fiction ML1751 G65 2012 (Browse shelf) Available MK
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-351) and index.

Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas.

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