Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s

by Siyuan Liu

Shortly after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the PRC launched a reform campaign that targeted traditional song and dance theater encompassing more than a hundred genres, collectively known as xiqu. Reformers censored or revised xiqu plays and techniques; reorganized star-based private troupes; reassigned the power to create plays from star actors to the newly created functions of playwright, director,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132474
• ISBN13: 9780472132478
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"