
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.
Page Count:
360
Publication Date:
2009-04-01
ISBN-10:
0295988436
ISBN-13:
9780295988436
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