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Opera and the City - The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Paperback)
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Opera and the City - The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Paperback)
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In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social
hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing
attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by
extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values.
It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses
opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history.
Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of
opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as
contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial
playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and
moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and
private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and
class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and
various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends,
and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the
time.
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