CHINA
THE PERFORMING ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, ECONOMICS
CHINA: HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, ECONOMICS
I | The Chinese Economy | Adler |
II | A Documentary History of Chinese Communism | Brandt et al |
III | Chinas Economic System | Donnithorne |
IV | A History of China | Eberhard |
V | The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy | Fung |
VI | Chuang Tz | Giles |
VII | Peoples War | Girling |
VIII | Chinas Regional Development | Goodman |
IX | Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China | Hillier & Jewell |
X | The Political Philosophy of Confucianism | Hs |
XI | Religion in China | Hughes & Hughes |
XII | Ta Tung Shu | Kang |
XIII | Chinas Foreign Relations since 1949 | Lawrance |
XIV | Confucian China and its Modern Fate V1 | Levenson |
XV | Confucian China and its Modern Fate V2 | Levenson |
XVI | Confucian China and its Modern Fate V3 | Levenson |
XVII | Crisis and Conflict in Han China | Loewe |
XVIII | The Performing Arts in Contemporary China | Mackerras |
XIX | The Rulers of China | Moule |
XX | The Fading of the Maoist Vision | Murphey |
XXI | The Grand Titration | Needham |
XXII | Within the Four Seas | Needham |
XXIII | Education in Modern China | Price |
XXIV | Sino-Russian Relations | Quested |
XXV | Contest for the South China Sea | Samuels |
XXVI | The Classical Theatre of China | Scott |
XXVII | Macartney at Kashgar | Skrine & Nightingale |
XXVIII | The Analects of Confucius | Waley |
XXIX | Ballads and Stories from Tun-Huang | Waley |
XXX | The Book of Songs | Waley |
XXXI | Chinese Poems | Waley |
XXXII | The Life and Times of Po Ch-i | Waley |
XXXIII | The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes | Waley |
XXXIV | The Real Tripitaka | Waley |
XXXV | The Secret History of the Mongols | Waley |
XXXVI | Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China | Waley |
XXXVII | The Way and its Power | Waley |
XXXVIII | Yuan Mei | Waley |
XXXIX | Confucius and Confucianism | Wilhelm |
XL | Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China | Wong |
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1981 Colin Mackerras
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The Performing Arts in Contemporary China
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ISBN 978-1-136-57364-4 (ePub)
China: History, Philosophy, Economics
The Performing Arts in Contemporary China
Colin Mackerras
First published in 1981 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD, 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA, and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN Set in 10/12pt Palatino by Input Typesetting Ltd, London SW19 8DR
Colin Mackerras 1981 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism
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Mackerras, Colin
The performing arts in contemporary China.
1. Performing arts - China
1. Title
790.20951 PN2874 8042215
ISBN 0710007787
Illustrations
between pp. 118 and 119
Scenes from the Clapper Opera of Puzhou Maishui (Selling Water)
Scene from the Shaoxing opera Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
Scene from the Shaoju Limao huan taizi (Exchange of the Heir-Apparent for a Leopard Cat)
Scene from the Clapper Opera of Puzhou Xu Ce paocheng (Xu Ce Runs on the City Wall)
Scenes from the Shaoxing opera Hongzhu n (The Red Pearl Girl)
Scene from the Kunqu drama Nao tiangong (Havoc in Heaven