Performing Arts · Theatre History & Traditions
A topic within Theatre History & Traditions, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
A. E. Zucker
Surveys the conventions of Chinese opera for an English-reading audience — its symbolic stage properties, role types and mixed music-and-speech form — arguing they form a coherent alternative dramatic grammar rather than a primitive stage.
192 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Fan Liao
Argues, against the assumption that jingju's modernisation was a legacy of pre-1949 colonial-era reform, that it was internal Chinese cultural politics after 1949 — censorship, and the friction between inherited convention and invented content — that reshaped the opera's form and its history.
link checked 17 Sept 2026