This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (pear garden theatre), heir and current expression of one of Chinas oldest unbroken xiqu (Chinese opera) traditions. It considers the genres history prior...Daugiau...
This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (pear garden theatre), heir and current expression of one of Chinas oldest unbroken xiqu (Chinese opera) traditions. It considers the genres history prior...Daugiau...
Kunqu, recognised by UNESCO in 2001 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu or "e;Chinese opera."e; Having survived the turmoil of the Chin...Daugiau...
Kunqu, recognised by UNESCO in 2001 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu or "e;Chinese opera."e; Having survived the turmoil of the Chin...Daugiau...
The madwoman was wearing a white velvet cheongsam. Standing on the bridge, she revelled in her own faded splendour. Normal people pay no attention to madwomen, but one woman from Shaoxing stayed on the bridge that afternoon to talk to this one; what...Daugiau...
Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and todays tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which sh...Daugiau...
