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Modernity and Hybridity: Tian Han's Xingeju Creations and Theatre Criticism(1937-1958)

Deng, Xiaoyan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343706981

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
Tian Han (1898-1968) was a Japanese-educated Marxist playwright, screenwriter, literary critic, and the director of the Xiqu Improvement Bureau (1949-1966). Throughout his life, Tian was an enthusiastic promoter of xingeju--a supposedly “modern” xiqu form. Tian's xingeju is a hybrid theatrical form that is greatly influenced by huaju (Chinese Western-style theatrical form) in form and inspired by Socialist Realism. Tian Han consciously and strategically appropriated conventions of xiqu, western theatrical form and the aesthetics of Soviet-inspired Socialist Realism to reshape xiqu and create the hybrid xiqu form--xingeju for satisfying the demand of the communist revolution and seeking for the supposed modernity of xiqu in order to get rid of its “feudal heritage” in a modern era.
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, PhD (Committee Chair)
Paul K. Jackson, PhD (Committee Member)
Nalin Asoka Jayasena, PhD (Committee Member)
66 p.
Theater
Tian Han; Chinese Theatre; Socialist Realism; Xingeju

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  • Deng, X. (2012). Modernity and Hybridity: Tian Han's Xingeju Creations and Theatre Criticism(1937-1958) [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343706981

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Deng, Xiaoyan. Modernity and Hybridity: Tian Han's Xingeju Creations and Theatre Criticism(1937-1958). 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343706981.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Deng, Xiaoyan. "Modernity and Hybridity: Tian Han's Xingeju Creations and Theatre Criticism(1937-1958)." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343706981

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