Tsʻao Yü, the reluctant disciple of Chekhov and O'Neill : a study in literary influence /
Historians of modern Chinese literature have generally used the year 1907 to mark the inception of Western-style drama in China. For in that year, a small group of Chinese students in Japan, inspired by the Japanese experiments with Western drama, decided to follow suit and form the Spring Willow So...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Hong Kong, China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
1970.
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| Series: | Centre of Asian Studies series ;
no. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Historians of modern Chinese literature have generally used the year 1907 to mark the inception of Western-style drama in China. For in that year, a small group of Chinese students in Japan, inspired by the Japanese experiments with Western drama, decided to follow suit and form the Spring Willow Society, an amateurish dramatic club for experimental purposes. Their first play, staged in Tokyo in February of the same year, is an adaptation from Dumas' La dame aux camelias. The play had an all-male cast and used a strange mixture of old and new techniques. But to the Chinese audience brought up in the native operatic tradition, what must have seemed strange would not have been so much the mixture of technique old and new as the complete unfamiliarity of the plot and the method of its presentation: for neither the story nor the acting was anything akin to what they used to think, of as drama. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (87 pages) :) : digital fil |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [79]-83) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789882202979 |