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Negotiations of Cultural Aesthetics in the “Reforms” of Mei Lanfang and the “Mei Party” Members to Jingju in China’s Early Republican Era (1912-1937)

Wu, Guanda
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271281752

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2010, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
China’s early Republican stage witnessed the rise of Mei Lanfang and his “reformed” jingju plays. Mei’s successful career in the early Republican era not only helped him to enjoy great popularity on the domestic stage, but also assisted traditional Chinese theatre in gaining a valuable confirmation from the West. Without a full awareness of the fundamental differences between Western and Chinese theatrical aesthetics, the “Mei Party” intellectuals allowed themselves to be appropriated by Western colonial aesthetics and the Western gaze. Their approach applied Western drama’s aesthetic principle to “reform” traditional jingju performance within China, while they plunged into a system of Orientalization that fit Western reception of traditional Asian art. In both cases, the traditional Chinese art’s enduring cultural identity was threatened by the Western cultural dominancy in a postcolonial context.
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, PhD (Committee Chair)
Andrew Gibb, PhD (Committee Member)
Paul Jackson, PhD (Committee Member)
Liang Shi, PhD (Committee Member)
84 p.
Theater
Mei Lanfang; jingju; theatre aesthetics

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  • Wu, G. (2010). Negotiations of Cultural Aesthetics in the “Reforms” of Mei Lanfang and the “Mei Party” Members to Jingju in China’s Early Republican Era (1912-1937) [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271281752

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wu, Guanda. Negotiations of Cultural Aesthetics in the “Reforms” of Mei Lanfang and the “Mei Party” Members to Jingju in China’s Early Republican Era (1912-1937). 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271281752.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wu, Guanda. "Negotiations of Cultural Aesthetics in the “Reforms” of Mei Lanfang and the “Mei Party” Members to Jingju in China’s Early Republican Era (1912-1937)." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271281752

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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