Women playing men: Yue opera and social change in twentieth-century Shanghai

Women playing men: Yue opera and social change in twentieth-century Shanghai
ISBN-10
0295988436
ISBN-13
9780295988436
Category
History
Pages
360
Language
English
Published
2009-04-01
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Author
Jin Jiang

Description

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.

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