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Cross-Gender China

Across Yin-Yang, Across Cultures, and Beyond Jingju

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-73593-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungstermin: 18.12.2020
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Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China.

The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics, or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing, this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367735937
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-73593-7
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis
  • Erscheinungstermin: 18.12.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
  • Serie: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 335 g
  • Seiten: 182
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Bao, Huai

Abstract

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Cultural Obsession

The Making of China’s National Icon

The Rise of an All-Female Utopia

National Identity and the Formation of the Gender Aesthetics

Chapter 3. Mao’s "Gender Trouble"

The Downfall of the Cross-Gender Performance Tradition

From Theatre to Reality: Normalization of Female Masculinity

The Production of a Social Taboo

Chapter 4. The Revival

White Faced Gentleman: The Unofficial Return of Nandan

"Natural Selection" in the Aesthetic Regime: The Return of Traditional Femininity

The Mainstreaming of Drag in Popular Media

Chapter 5. The New Generation

"Two Spirited" M. Butterfly

The Superwoman Within

Intersex

Occasional Cross-Gender

Training

"Double Standard"

Employment Opportunities

Relationships

Success

Chapter 6. Rebel or Follow

When Theatre and Biology Intersect

Interplay: Desires, Identities and Transgression

Make Believe: Creating a Psychological Truth

The Performed and the Innate

The Drama of Reality

Sexual Artifice in Gender Transgression

Chapter 7. Conclusion

References

Appendix A.

Major interview questions

Appendix B.

List of Interviewees

Appendix C.

Glossary