The Face Of Chinese Opera

Author : Kuo-lin T'sao
Publisher : Hilit Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789576292422
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Chinese Opera written by Kuo-lin T'sao and published by Hilit Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the history and development of Chinese Opera, its styles, training methods, categories of characters, costumes and make-up. Contains over 50 full-page color photographs illustrating the most famous heroes and infamous villains of Chinese Opera.

Author : Red Earth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781731274946
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facial Design of Beijing Opera written by Red Earth and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peking Opera is recognized as one of the most representative of Chinese art; Peking Opera Mask is a special makeup method with Chinese cultural characteristics. Since each historical character or a certain type of character has a pattern, just like singing and playing, you have to follow the mode, it is called "facial painting"."Beijing Opera Mask 1" is the basic introduction to the facial painting series of books, including:◎ 9 kinds of "the color of facial painting"◎ 4 kinds of "Beijing opera roles" ◎ 3 kinds of "Skills in drawing Beijing Opera facial paintings"◎Selected 20 kinds of "historical figure" coloringThrough simple guidance and hands-on portrayal, you will be able to appreciate the fun of Peking Opera's facial painting and at the same time be closer to the wonderful Chinese art.(If you want to know the color of facial painting, we also have URL for your reference)

Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
ISBN 13 : 9780935573558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Images written by Judith T. Zeitlin and published by Smart Museum of Art, the University of C. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbé Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese.” This taste and passion for the theater was not restricted to the stage, but permeated the visual and material world of everyday life from the village to the court. The visual spectacle of this theater is well known, displayed primarily through colorful costumes, props, and face painting. What is less known is the extent to which operatic characters and stories were favored as pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual mediums, from courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books and painted fans to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramas.

Author : Pe-Chin Chang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Opera and Painted Face written by Pe-Chin Chang and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wang-Ngai Siu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208268
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Opera written by Wang-Ngai Siu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid face-painting and exquisite costumes. First experiences of Chinese opera can be baffling because its vocabulary of stagecraft is familiar only to the seasoned aficionado. Chinese Opera: The Actor’s Craft makes the experience more accessible for everyone. This book uses breath-taking images of Chinese opera in performance by Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate and explain Chinese opera stage technique. The book explores costumes, gestures, mime, acrobatics, props and stage techniques. Each explanation is accompanied by an example of its use in an opera and is illustrated by in-performance photographs. Chinese Opera: The Actor’s Craft provides the reader with a basic grammar for understanding uniquely Chinese solutions to staging drama.

Author : Peter Lovrick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844450
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Opera written by Peter Lovrick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.

Author : Alexandra B Bonds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351380451
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beijing Opera Costumes written by Alexandra B Bonds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and practice of stage dress. Distinguishing attributes include an introduction to the performance style, the delineation of the costume conventions, an analysis of the costumes through their historical precedents and theatrical modifications, and the use of garment shape, color, and embroidery for symbolic effect. Practical information covers dressing the performers and a costume plot, the design and creation of the make-up and hairstyles, and pattern drafts of the major garments. Photographs from live performances, as well as details of embroidery, and close-up photographs of the headdresses thoroughly portray the stunning beauty of this incomparable performance style. Presenting the brilliant colors of the elaborately embroidered silk costumes together with the intricate makeup and glittering headdresses, this volume embodies the elegance of the Beijing opera.

Author : Lim SK
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9812299882
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Chinese Opera (2010 Edition - EPUB) written by Lim SK and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese opera is one of the world's oldest dramatic forms and a well-loved treasure of Chinese culture. It is a wonderful combination of dance, music, literature, poetry, singing and dialogue, acrobatics and martial arts to create a unique form of acting that includes "singing, speaking, acting and acrobatic fighting". Find out more fascinating details about Chinese opera: * Why is the clown mask so colourful? * Who is the "big painted face"? * What does it signify when an opera performer stands on the table? Origins of Chinese Opera is definitely an eye-catching book complete with pictures and comics vividly portraying various opera genres popular in China. You will be fascinated by how the art form is able to transform and adapt itself to appeal to the sophisticated audience of our digital era.

Author : Ma Haili
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472432304
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Politics and Cultural Capital written by Ma Haili and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ‘beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and economic reforms in the new millennium. Previous publications have focused mainly on the historical development of Chinese theatre, with emphasis placed on Beijing opera. This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera House market reform this book facilitates an understanding of the complex Chinese political economic situation in post-socialist China. This book suggests that as state art institutions are key organs of the Communist party gaining legitimacy, the vigorous evolution and struggle of the Shanghai Yue Opera house in fact directly mirrors the Communist Party internal turmoil in the new millennium to gain its own legitimacy and survival.

Author : Ruru Li
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622099955
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul of Beijing Opera, The written by Ruru Li and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will act as a powerful introduction to the story of Beijing Opera over the course of the twentieth century with a particularly strong emphasis on the Communist period and its influence on contemporary performance. Using excellent oral history research and with a strong focus on practice and performance techniques, Li Ruru places the genre in both its historical and global context: not a timeless Chinese tradition, but a product of China's turbulent twentieth century and the global interactions that were a key part of that history." Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University "This meticulously researched and colourful account of the highly complex performance form, jingju, will be of interest to a wide constituency of theatre scholars and cultural historians. Writing from the unique dual perspective of`insider/practitioner' and academic, Li Ruru deftly weaves oral and cultural histories together with detailed performance analyses, including a fascinating chapter on the secrets of jingju training. This book promises to raise significantly the profile of this Chinese total theatre for English-speaking audiences."Jonathan Pitches, founding co-editor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training "Li Ruru's unique and valuable perspective combines the critical eye of the imaginative researcher with the intimate perspective of a true jingju insider-the daughter of one of the twentieth century's leading female performers. Impeccably researched, passionate and personal, this aptly titled book provides readers with an exciting and thought provoking look at jingju history and performance practice through its focus on the lives and work of six controversial leading artists." Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Any traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How has Beijing Opera --- a highly stylized theatre with breath-taking acrobatics and martial arts, fabulous costumes and striking makeup --- survived into the new millennium while coping with a century of great upheavals and competition from new entertainment forms? Li Ruru's The Soul of Beijing Opera answers that question, looking at the evolution of singing and performance styles, make-up and costume, audience demands, as well as stage and street presentation modes amid tumultuous social and political changes. Li's study follows a number of major artists' careers in mainland China and Taiwan, drawing on extensive primary print sources as well as personal interviews with performers and their cultural peers. One chapter focuses on the illustrious career of Li's own mother and how she adapted to changes in Communist ideology. In addition, she explores how performers as social beings have responded to conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between convention and innovation. Through performers' negotiation and compromises. Beijing Opera has undergone constant re-examination of its inner artistic logic and adjusted to the demands of the external world.