TY - BOOK ID - 77899438 TI - Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 PY - 2012 SN - 0804782628 9780804782623 9780804778312 0804778310 9780804792059 0804792054 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Operas, Chinese KW - Beijing operas KW - Chinese operas KW - Ching chü KW - Jingju KW - Operas, Beijing KW - Operas, Peking KW - Peking operas KW - Pʻing chü (Chinese operas) KW - Chinese drama KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - History and criticism. KW - Beijing (China) KW - Beijing Shi (China) KW - Begejing (China) KW - Begejing Qota (China) KW - Bėėzhin (China) KW - Бээжин (China) KW - Peiping (China) KW - Peping (China) KW - Pekin (China) KW - Pei-ching shih (China) KW - Pei-pʻing shih (China) KW - Peking (China) KW - Pukkyŏng (China) KW - Beijing Municipality (China) KW - Bei Jing Shi (China) KW - Pei-ching (China) KW - Pechino (China) KW - Pequim (China) KW - Peiping Municipal Administrative Area (China) KW - Peiping Municipality (China) KW - Peking Municipality (China) KW - Bījīn (China) KW - Dadu (China) KW - Daidu (China) KW - 北京 (China) KW - Beiping Tebieshi zheng fu KW - Beiping Shi zheng fu KW - Beiping Shi di fang wei chi hui KW - Beijing di fang wei chi hui KW - Beijing Tebieshi zheng fu KW - Beijing Tebieshi gong shu KW - Beijing Shi ren min zheng fu KW - Beijing Shi ren min wei yuan hui KW - Beijing Shi ge ming wei yuan hui KW - Intellectual life KW - Opera KW - S16/0300 KW - Comic opera KW - Lyric drama KW - Opera, Comic KW - Operas KW - Drama KW - Dramatic music KW - Singspiel KW - History and criticism KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional theatre: studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899438 AB - In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses n ER -