Urban Politics and Cultural Capital in China the Case of Chinese Opera

Urban Politics and Cultural Capital in China the Case of Chinese Opera
ISBN-10
1472432290
ISBN-13
9781472432292
Category
Music
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2015-01
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Author
Ma Haili

Description

This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera House market reform this book facilitates an understanding of the complex Chinese political economic situation in post-socialist China. This book suggests that as state art institutions are key organs of the Communist party gaining legitimacy, the vigorous evolution and struggle of the Shanghai Yue Opera house in fact directly mirrors the Communist Party internal turmoil in the new millennium to gain its own legitimacy and survival.

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