TY  - GEN
T1  - How to read Chinese drama : a guided anthology
T2  - How to read Chinese literature
A2  - Sieber, Patricia Angela
A2  - Llamas, Regina
LA  - English
LA  - Chinese
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1245250591
AB  - "How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology introduces students to the wide world of Chinese theater through excerpts from and context about 14 plays. Special attention is paid to how those plays are realized on stage. These examples cover the entire history of the most important genres up to the maturity of Peking opera in the second half of the nineteenth century. Students will be exposed to many play texts and aspects of Chinese theater, including three types of expressive modes-music (music and singing), text (speaking/reciting/written text), and movements (acting)-historical, biographical, and sociopolitical backgrounds about Chinese drama and playwrights, staging and rituals, and close textual analyses. The book is designed to be used independently or in concert with How to Read Chinese Drama: A Language Text, but the guided anthology volume does not assume any knowledge of Chinese"--
OP  - 434
CN  - PL2359 .H69 2022
SN  - 9780231546669
SN  - 0231546661
SN  - 9780231186483
SN  - 0231186487
SN  - 9780231186490
SN  - 0231186495
KW  - Chinese drama : History and criticism.
KW  - Chinese drama : Translations into English.
KW  - Théâtre chinois : Histoire et critique.
KW  - DRAMA / Asian / General
KW  - Chinese drama
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Translations
ER  -