Overview

What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it's Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition's increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.

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Author:   David Rolston
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Weight:   1.480kg
ISBN:  

9789004461925

ISBN 10:   9004461922
Pages:   798
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Jingju, and Why Should We Care about It? 1 Names, Names, Names 2 Why Should We Care about Jingju? 1 Jingju Repertoire(s) and Types of Plays and Playscripts 1 The Repertoire(s) 2 Types of Plays 3 Types of Playscripts 2 Textualization and Authorship before Xikao (Research into Plays) 1 Authorship and Textualization of Classical Chinese Indigenous Theater 2 Two Kinds of Early Literati Jingju Playwrights and the Common Fate of Their Plays 3 Early Ordinary Actors as Playwrights 4 Literati Who Became Actors and Also Wrote Plays 5 Early Professional Playwrights 3 The Production of a Mass-Market Collection of Jingju Playscripts: Xikao (Research into Plays) 1 The Publication History of Xikao 2 What Is Xikao? The Title(s) 3 What Is Xikao? Looking for the Master Plan 4 Who Put Xikao Together? 5 Where Did the Playscripts Come From? 6 The Photos 4 After Xikao: The Rise of Theater Studies, Copyright, and New Censorship Regimes 1 Evaluation of Xikao 2 New Approaches That Arose at Least Partially in Reaction to Xikao 5 New Kinds of Playwrights 1 Chen Moxiang: The Most Prolific Jingju Playwright of the Republican Era 2 Weng Ouhong: The Most Prolific/Famous Jingju Playwright 3 Playwriting after Weng Ouhong 6 New Kinds of Publication 1 Single Plays Published in Anthologies 2 Single Plays Published as Books 3 Single Plays Published in Periodicals 4 New Media and the Recording of Image, Movement, and Sound 5 Recording More Detail in Play Texts: Adding Graphic Elements and Photographs 6 New Recording Media and New Ways of Telling Plays (Shuoxi) 7 New Recording Media: DVD Bonus Features, Digitization, Hypertexts, and the Web Epilogue: Living with Textual Fixity Appendix: List of Plays in Xikao Select Bibliography Index

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David L. Rolston has been teaching Chinese language and literature at the University of Michigan since he obtained his Ph.D. in 1988. His previous research focus was traditional Chinese fiction, resulting in two books, How to Read the Chinese Novel (1990) and Traditional Chinese Fiction Commentary (1997). Since then he has concentrated on traditional Chinese theater, publishing many articles on that subject in Chinese.

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