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Beijing Operas: Eight Model Plays, Farewell My Concubine, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Women Generals of the Yangs, the Qing Ding Pearl

Beijing Operas: Eight Model Plays, Farewell My Concubine, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Women Generals of the Yangs, the Qing Ding Pearl


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Chapters: Eight Model Plays, Farewell My Concubine, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Women Generals of the Yangs, the Qing Ding Pearl. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Revolutionary opera refers to the revolutionary model operas planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong. As Communist Party-sanctioned operas, they were considered "revolutionary" and modern in terms of thematic and musical features when compared with traditional operas. In total, eight revolutionary operas were made, and, according to some sources, they were the only sources of artistic expression allowed in China at the time. Traditional Beijing opera was considered "feudalistic and bourgeois," and was banned. The operas were made under Mao's provision that "art must serve the interests of the workers, peasants, and soldiers and must conform to proletarian ideology." The operas are often taken as paradigmatic of the Party-dominated art of the Cultural Revolution, and have been condemned as an aesthetic and cultural aberration. Jiang Qing was the chief advocate and engineer of the transformation from traditional opera to revolutionary opera, and chose the Beijing opera as her "laboratory experimentation" for accomplishing this radical change in theater art. Traditional Beijing opera was revolutionized in both form and content. Eight yangbanxi, or model operas, were produced in the first three years of the Cultural Revolution. They included five Beijing operas, The Red Lantern, ShaJia Bang (Shajia Village), Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategies, Raid on the White Tiger Regiment, and On the Dock; two ballets, Red Detachment of Women and White-Haired Girl; and one symphony, Sha-jia-bang Symphony. After 1969 several other mod...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=174953


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158341900
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158341903
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Eight Model Plays, Farewell My Concubine, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Women Generals of the Yangs, the Qing Ding Pearl
  • Width: 229 mm


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