Meng Guang was the wife of Liang Hong, of the Later Han dynasty. ... By “my great heroic ancestor,” Guan Hanqing means Guan Yu, the famous patriotic general of the Three Kingdoms period, who was also born in Xieliang.
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners.
Secrets of the Chinese Drama: A Complete Explanatory Guide to Actions and Symbols as Seen in the Performance of Chinese...
In particular, this book delivers an insightful view about the evolution of the meaning of “national drama” and “drama”.
Reading the Right Text introduces six new plays from contemporary China, five of which are translated here into English for the first time.
A History of Chinese Drama
of Chinese drama, Beijing opera, was already blunt and harsh. To directly negated the inborn mental ability of Chinese people was a serious mistake. How could people not question that, with the thousands of years of civilization and ...
2-3 (2010): 181–199; on television, see Megan Evans, “Chinese Xiqu Performance and Moving-Image Media,” Theatre Research ... For an annotated bibliography of key studies on traditional Chinese drama, see Colin Mackerras and Zhen Hai, ...
PANG YUN: (Something dawns on her.) Didn't Princess come to meet you? YUE YANG: (Calmly) What do you mean? (Angrily) Are you making fun of me? PANG YUN: You . . . What are you talking about? YUE YANG: Don't you know?
And this is the principal role in the Japanese play Infant Slaughter.5 These are all film photos. Yes, I was a female soldier in God of Freedom, the wife of a wheelbarrow pusher in Twenty Cents, and the wife of the pig farmer, Liu San, ...