{"product_id":"ruling-the-stage-social-and-cultural-history-of-opera-in-sichuan-from-the-qing-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china-9789004519381","title":"Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the complex path of opera over this course of history: exiting the temple festivals, becoming a public obsession on commercial stages, and finally being harnessed to partisan propaganda work. The book analyzes the process of cross-regional integration of Chinese culture and the emergence of the national opera genre. Moreover, opera is shown as an example of the culture wars that raged inside China’s popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Plates, Table and Maps    Introduction    PART 1: Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan    1 Development of Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan   1\tThe Role of Opera in Qing Society   2\tOpera and Construction of the Community   3\tThe Nineteenth-Century Flourishing: The Role of Opera in Shaping Local Religious Practice   4\tOpera and Shaping of the Material and Social Landscape   5\tA Market Town: A Temple-Centered Society, An Opera-Centered Society   6\tThe Big City Perspective   7\tOpera between the Elites and the Commoners   8\tOpera, Officials, and the Social (Dis)Order   9\tConcluding Remarks    PART 2: The New Institutionalization: Law, Market, Politics, and Culture of Commercialized Art, 1902–1937    2 A Transformed Relationship: Theater and Power after the Qing New Policies   1\tThe Three Forces of Change: Destruction of Temples, Commercialization, and the New Legal Order   2\tNew Policies and a Novel Way of Doing Business in Sichuan   3\tThe Protecting Power of Official Greed: Republican Commercial Theater   4\tTaxing   5\tHelping Hand   6\tWomen on the Show   7\tRectifying Opera    3 Commercial Opera: Shaping the City and Shaping the Actors   1\tTheaters and Urban Zoning: Researching the Social Background of the Audiences   2\tEarly Transformation in the Social and Spatial Geography of Opera   3\tRepublican Theaters and Urban Zoning: Crystallization of the Opera’s Public   4\tCommercial Theater and Actors’ Careers   5\tConcluding Remarks    4 The Culture of the Commercial Opera   1\tThe Methods of Studying Opera: Troupes, Talent, and Repertoires   2\tWatching the Commercial Show: How Was It Served?   3\tFavorite Plays and the Cultural Universe of Sichuan Audiences   4\tGods, Emperors, Heroes…   5\tTime and Place   6\tConcluding Remarks    Illustration Quire    PART 3: Creating the New World    5 The Divide: Local Intellectuals and the Cultural Conflict   1\tCommercial Daily’s Explorations and Experimentations with New Drama   2\tDissatisfaction, Estrangement, Elitism, and a Turn to the Left   3\tRadicalization and Rejection   4\tConcluding Remarks    6 The Times of the Nationalists (1937–1949) and the War   1\tPerforming Arts Culture   2\tMilitary Emergency and China’s Migration to the Southwest   3\tInventing the Wartime Theater   4\tPutting Words into Action   5\tLiving through Frustration: Playwrights and the War   6\tAn All Too Visible Context: Sichuan Opera and the War   7\tConcluding Remarks    7 Revolution: Communist “People’s Art”   1\tCommunist Conquest of Sichuan: A New Political Context   2\tPolitical and Ideological Basis of the Opera Reform   3\tBreaking the “Superstitious” Opera   4\tAdjusting to the New Party-State Policies   5\tSeizing Control over the Opera Companies   6\tOpera Becomes Useful to the Communist State   7\tPolicy in Action: Chongqing, 1951–1952   8\tConcluding Remarks    8 Conclusion    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210847445335,"sku":"9789004519381","price":112.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ruling-the-stage-social-and-cultural-history-of-opera-in-sichuan-from-the-qing-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china-9789004519381","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}