Androgynous glamour : an examination of gender, politics, and male Dan actors in Jingju from the early 1900s through the 1950s
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the early 20th century, Chinese theatre witnessed the establishment of the Jingju (Beijing Opera, or Peking Opera) as the country's "national drama". It acquired a new dimension that attracted considerable number of people: it was not just a remnant and a memory of the past, but signaled the beginning of the reconstruction at the dawn of a new era and the waves of cultural revival in the modern era. In my dissertation, I will argue that Mei Lanfang (1894--1961), Cheng Yanqiu (1904--1958), and Xun Huisheng (1900--1968), the foremost male dan (female role) actors in the early 20th century, involved in the re-creation of the Jingju in specific ways, offered and modeled new paradigms by which to reformulate the aesthetics of Jingju, and thus, contributed to the development of this form of theatre in the modern era. My project is distinct from others that focus upon the discussions of the material conditions of the theatre, or treatment of the modern intellectuals' contributions to the development of the Chinese theatre in the modern era. I attempt to build a framework to schematize these actors' contributions to the field of Jingju. I also discuss their individual strengths, their approaches to Jingju, and the features of their acting. I propose to describe how these actors affected theatrical discourses. For Mei, the struggle occurred between a lyricized dramatic mode versus a more theatrical one. Cheng crafted new positions within the theatrical world that encompassed aesthetic and political ideologies. Xun's choice of the huadan female roles adopted an inherently critical stance, and constituted the decision to re-examine the female characters that could be categorized as "the sensual.".
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 | Xie, Fang |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Wang, Ban |
| Thesis advisor | Wang, Ban |
| Thesis advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Llamas, Regina |
| Advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Advisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Advisor | Llamas, Regina |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Fang Xie. |
|---|---|
| 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 Fang Xie
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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