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Women Playing Men - Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Hardcover)
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Women Playing Men - Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Hardcover)
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This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular
culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A
subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to
urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into
an all-female one, with women cross-dressing as male characters for
a largely female audience. Yue opera originated in the Zhejiang
countryside as a form of story-singing, which rural immigrants
brought with them to the metropolis of Shanghai. There, in the
1930s, its content and style transformed from rural to urban, and
its cast changed gender. By evolving in response to sociopolitical
and commercial conditions and actress-initiated reforms, Yue opera
emerged as Shanghai's most popular opera from the 1930s through the
1980s and illustrates the historical rise of women in Chinese
public culture. Jiang examines the origins of the genre in the
context of the local operas that preceded it and situates its
development amid the political, cultural, and social movements that
swept both Shanghai and China in the twentieth century. She details
the contributions of opera stars and related professionals and
examines the relationships among actresses, patrons, and fans. As
Yue opera actresses initiated reforms to purge their theater of
bawdy eroticism in favor of the modern love drama, they elevated
their social image, captured the public imagination, and sought
independence from the patriarchal opera system by establishing
their own companies. Throughout the story of Yue opera, Jiang looks
at Chinese women's struggle to control their lives, careers, and
public images and to claim ownership of their history and artistic
representations.
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