Goldstein Joshua S.:
Drama Kings
Players And Publics In The Re-Creation Of Peking Opera, 1870-1937
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2007
Hardback, 382 pages
Size: 233x165 mm
ISBN: 9780520247529
ISBN-10: 0520247523
List price: £29.95
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Drama Kings
Describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its rise as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China. This book demonstrates that the process of reforming and marketing Peking opera as a national genre was involved with process of colonial modernity, and the rise of capitalist visual culture.


