Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

by Jin Jiang

Book Overview

This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressing as male characters for a largely female audience.

Yue opera originated in the Zhejiang countryside as a form of story-singing, which rural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988444
• ISBN13: 9780295988443
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"