Quangang Hokkien Opera

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shixiong Chen ◽  
Guochen Dong
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Theatre

More than 80% of Chinese opera performances today are presented by privately run professional folk troupes, mostly in rural areas—Chinese theatre’s best kept secret. These performances are rarely noticed by Chinese theatre scholars. There are more than 30 such troupes in Quangang District, Fujian province, which has a population of 300,000.

Xiqu in the Philippines: From Church Suppression to MegaMall Shows

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-89
Author(s):  
Josh Stenberg (石峻山)
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Contemporary Practice

Abstract Evidence of xiqu (“Chinese opera”) in the Philippines begins in the early 16th century, when the Catholic church sought to suppress it. Despite its longevity, Philippine xiqu has not featured much in the multidisciplinary study of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, nor as part of the global turn in xiqu research. This article, attending to the history and contemporary practice of xiqu, situates the Philippines and especially Manila firmly in the Hokkien network of Chinese theatre, especially in the period between the late nineteenth century and World War II. The Philippines were, and remain today, an important node in xiqu dissemination, transfer, and transnational evolution, as well as an integral part of the culture of the Chinese in the Philippines. The Philippine case helps break down fundamental linguistic, ethnic, and religious equations surrounding xiqu, given the genre’s syncretism, ethnic ambiguity, and non-Chinese language environment.

scholarly journals Inside Chinese Theatre: Cantonese Opera in Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Cantonese Opera ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Chinese Canadian

Opera theatre forms an important part of Chinese Canadian cultural history. Since first appearing in Victoria in the 1860s, Chinese theatres were woven into the community’s everyday life, performing Cantonese opera, the regional genre known to the majority of Chinese immigrants who came from the Pearl River Delta of southern China. A brief survey of historical city maps from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century shows their central role in Chinese Canadian community of the Pacific Northwest. Recent discovery of a Chinese theatrical company’s daily business receipts provides a window into the performance culture and daily operations of a Chinese theatre between 1916 and 1918 in Vancouver. This vibrant period of the 1910s paved the way for full-fledged theatre operation in the following decade that brought about a new era of Chinese opera performance in Canada.

scholarly journals A Study of the Development and Promotion of Chinese Opera Movie in Rural Areas: An Investigation and Reflection on Hunan Rural Movie of Local Opera Project in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Xiu-Feng Yang ◽  
Wei Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Public

Chinese opera movie is a special form of art developed from the combination of traditional Chinese opera and cinematographic art. In the inheritance and development model represented by “Hunan Rural Movie of Local Opera Project”（also called “Hunan Local Opera Movie Project”）, Chinese public administrators, traditional opera artists and opera movie makers target rural areas, adhere to traditional opera culture, and explore new ways to develop and promote opera movie. They put effort into upholding orthodox opera and innovating for audience, conducting a beneficial practice of making traditional culture resonate by current rural audience again in way of producing and disseminating opera movies. Their practice has contributed to the creative development of opera movie in rural areas.

scholarly journals Spatial heterogeneity in and distributional characteristics of rural ecological livability in China——The case of Fujian Province

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0244238
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Jiang ◽  
Lingyu Wang ◽  
Xiaofeng Su ◽  
Weipeng Zeng ◽  
Anxin Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Spatially Correlated ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Status ◽  
Entropy Weight Method ◽  
Weight Method ◽  
Slight Downward Trend

With the outbreak of COVID-19, the importance of rural areas has been gradually highlighted, and the importance of rural ecological livability has been gradually recognized. A growing body of literature recognizes the importance of building a rural ecological livability (REL) system. It is urgent that we clarify the status quo and spatial-temporal differences in and distributional characteristics of rural ecological livability and that we carry out targeted and differentiated construction to promote rural ecological livability in post-epidemic China. This study proposes a conceptual model that incorporates various economic, social and environmental factors and develops a comprehensive multifactor (production-living-ecology) evaluation system. Using Fujian Province as an example, the entropy weight method is used to measure the REL level of 55 counties and cities, which are comprehensively evaluated from 2015 to 2019. Moran's I and Getis-Ord Gi* are used to analyze the spatial and distributional characteristics of the REL level in Fujian. The results show that the level of REL in Fujian Province has been relatively flat over the past five years, with a slight downward trend. The overall value of the rural ecological livability index in 2015 was 0.345, and its overall value in 2019 was 0.334, with an average value of 0.343. The REL of Fujian Province is spatially correlated, with high levels of livability in the southeast and low levels in the northeast. The autocorrelation in the level of ecological livability in Fujian's counties and cities continues to increase.

The Birdwoman and the Puppet King: a Study of Inversion in Chinese Theatre

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (50) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Poh Sim Plowright
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Set Up

Poh Sim Plowright recently spent six weeks in Quanzhou, in the Fujian Province of China, watching the puppeteers, actors, and audiences of her native Fujian theatre tradition. Here she was able to observe at first hand the principle of inversion that, she believes, underlies all Chinese theatre: and in the following article she argues that this principle is clearly illustrated by the string puppet and human theatres of Quanzhou, whose origins can be traced to the official ‘Pear Garden Theatre’ set up in the eighth century by the Tang Emperor, Ming Huang. Theatre in this part of South China is, Plowright suggests, living testimony to the continuing basis of Chinese theatre in the practice of ancestor worship, through which most performances become sacrificial offerings – a connection she believes Brecht to have missed in his celebrated confrontation with Chinese acting techniques in Moscow in 1935. Poh Sim Plowright is Lecturer in Oriental Drama and Director of the Noh Centre in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of a book on the Noh, and also of several plays and features on theatrical subjects for BBC Radio Three.

The Production and Consumption of Chinese Theatre in Nineteenth-Century California

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAPHNE LEI
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Old West ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Turmoil

The history of the earliest documented Chinese opera performances in California (1852) and their successors during the following decades reveal how Chinese theatre in the diaspora was produced and consumed by Chinese immigrants, European visitors and Americans. On the one hand, a familiar repertoire eased the nostalgia and reinforced the national consciousness of Chinese immigrants, while on the other, the ethnocentric reading and writing of Chinese theatre helped establish an eternal frontier in the ‘old West’ to protect American national identity in late nineteenth-century California's periods of economic and political turmoil. Finally, the exoticism of California's Chinese theatre in America contributed to a European sense of American cultural uniqueness. Chinese opera performances played a crucial role in the invention of Californian identity.

Mao's Chair: Revolutionizing Chinese Theatre

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ruru
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
The Many

Using rarely seen minutes, manuscripts and photographs preserved in the Shanghai Jingju Theatre archive, an analysis of Interrogating the Chair, a revolutionary Chinese opera embodying Mao's instruction ‘We should never forget the class struggle’, reveals how the ideological demands of the mid-1960s interfered with Chinese theatre. Further, the many revisions of the opera show how the traditional jingju repertoire was transformed into model opera. Interviews with those involved at the time are used to present a direct account of how practitioners dealt with the dilemma of presenting a revolutionary and contemporary theme while keeping faith with their indigenous theatrical form.

The Development Level and Dominant Types Partition of Rural Areas in Fujian Province of China

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Wen-sheng Chen ◽  
Jin-gui Zheng ◽  
Shui-sheng Fan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Development Level
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