Cover Image

RAI Film Festival 2017. The last lineage opera in Zhouguan village /

In the summer of 2006, I went as a student to Zhouguan, a Tunpu village in a multiethnic area of southwest China. Renowned for its performances of the Dixi exorcism operas, the village elders believe that they are descendants of ethnic Han military colonists in the early Ming Dynasty. When local bus...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Xiong, Xun (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Chinese
Language Notes:In Chinese with English subtitles.
Published: London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Nuo operas > China.
Theater > China.
China.
Théâtre > Chine.
Nuo operas
Theater
China
Documentaries and Factual Films
documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:In the summer of 2006, I went as a student to Zhouguan, a Tunpu village in a multiethnic area of southwest China. Renowned for its performances of the Dixi exorcism operas, the village elders believe that they are descendants of ethnic Han military colonists in the early Ming Dynasty. When local businessmen and government officials began to take control of the staging of these plays, the elders told me that "authentic" performances were no longer possible. They therefore asked me to make a record of the Dixi opera which they planned to perform that year for the very last time.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (42 min.)
Playing Time:00:41:49