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Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across The Pacific.(Book review)
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Asian Theatre Journal
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September 22, 2008
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OPERATIC CHINA: STAGING CHINESE IDENTITY ACROSS THE PACIFIC. By Daphne P. Lei. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 360 pp. Hardcover $69.95.
"What could be more Chinese than Chinese opera?" asks Lei at the end of her imaginative study of Chinese opera and identity. The book, which is both wide ranging in its scope and detailed in its research, offers a number of innovative perspectives on Chinese opera and the shifting, often historicized identity it encompasses. Given that the book is primarily concerned with the construction of identity through performance, it seems a little odd that Lei should render xiqu as "Chinese opera" throughout, a term that suggests stasis and ...
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