03299nam 22004573 450 991084749440332120240510084504.00-472-90396-9(CKB)31555774400041(MiAaPQ)EBC31324051(Au-PeEL)EBL31324051(EXLCZ)993155577440004120240510d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRevolutionary Stagecraft Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China1st ed.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2024.©2024.1 online resource (339 pages)0-472-07656-6 0-472-05656-5 Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over "how to" make theater amid the political upheavals of China's 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920s-when Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipment-and ends in the early days of China's current scientific and technological boom, in the 1980s. By examining iconic plays and performances from the perspective of the stage technologies involved, Tarryn Li-Min Chun provides a fresh perspective on their composition and staging. The chapters include stories on the challenges of creating imitation neon, rigging up a makeshift revolving stage, and representing a nuclear bomb detonating onstage. In thinking about theater through technicity, the author mines well-studied materials such as dramatic texts and performance reviews for hidden technical details and brings to light a number of previously untapped sources such as technical journals and manuals; set design renderings, lighting plots, and prop schematics; and stage technology how-to guides for amateur thespians. This approach focuses on material stage technologies, situating these objects equally in relation to their technical potential, their human use, and the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence them. In each of its case studies, Revolutionary Stagecraft reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.TheaterChinaHistory20th centuryTheaterPolitical aspectsChinaHistory20th centuryTheatersStage-setting and sceneryChinaTheaterHistoryTheaterPolitical aspectsHistoryTheatersStage-setting and scenery792.0951Chun Tarryn Li-Min1745649MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910847494403321Revolutionary Stagecraft4176847UNINA