Performative modernity : Shanghai style Peking opera in pre-war Shanghai, 1872-1937
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between Chinese theater and the city of Shanghai between 1872 and 1937, and its wider effects on Chinese modernity. Peking opera, a hybrid art form of singing, dancing, acrobatics, and storytelling, is generally thought as having two characteristics: a traditional art form and an art that is closely tied to the city of Beijing. However, such an understanding fails to take into account a series of exciting developments that occurred to Peking opera in Shanghai. During 1872 and 1937 in Shanghai, the constant negotiations about the form, the content, and the purpose of Peking opera—along with the changing mechanisms of cooperative authorship, the emergence of a mass-media based critical community, an expansion of thematic subjects treated, and the audience's new multi-faceted engagement with the opera—all point to a complicated epistemology that emerged concurrently with Shanghai's urban transformation. My study argues that Peking opera in its current form was fundamentally created in the cosmopolitan and concession-based city of Shanghai at the turn of the twentieth century, motivated by the emergence of Chinese modernity. Moreover, Peking opera in turn shaped Chinese modernity and helped form the cultural and political identity of Shanghai.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Zhao, Tingting |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Primary advisor | Wang, Ban |
| Thesis advisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Wang, Ban |
| Thesis advisor | Sun, Chao |
| Advisor | Sun, Chao |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tingting Zhao. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Tingting Zhao
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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