Opera and the city
Subtitle: the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
By: Andrea S. Goldman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804778312
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Intellectual life; History and criticism; Chinese Operas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses; title: Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state; title: Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage; title: Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint; title: Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas.