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10-12th GR: Chinese/Japanese theater/theatre

Japanese

Japanese:

Kabuki   general JSTOR search
  • Tagliabue, John. “Kabuki Recollected.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 2, no. 4, 1961, pp. 619–631. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/25086727.
  • Richie, Donald, and Joseph L. Anderson. “Traditional Theater and the Film in Japan (KABUKI, NOH and OTHERS) .” Film Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, 1958, pp. 2–9. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3186070.
  • Tamotsu, Watanabe. "The elements of abstraction: a kabuki primer: four hundred years after its first moves were played out on the dry river beds of Kyoto, the theatrical form known as kabuki is still going strong. Watanabe Tamotsu outlines the history and defining elements of this venerable dramatic tradition." Look Japan, vol. 49, no. 566, May 2003, p. 34+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A114326303/GPS?u=pl3045&sid=GPS&xid=8ef4e2d1.

Noh
  • Richie, Donald, and Joseph L. Anderson. “Traditional Theater and the Film in Japan (KABUKI, NOH and OTHERS) .” Film Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, 1958, pp. 2–9. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/3186070.
  • Goff, Janet E. “The National Noh Theater.” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 39, no. 4, 1984, pp. 445–452. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/2384576

Kyogen
  • Morley, Carolyn. “The Tender-Hearted Shrews: The Woman Character in Kyôgen.” The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 22, no. 1, 1988, pp. 41–52. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/489335.
  • Seki Kobayashi, and Shinko Kagaya. Kyōgen in the Postwar Era.” Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2007, pp. 144–177. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/4137113
Bunraku
  • Dasgupta, Gautam. "Bunraku Miniatures." Performing Arts Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 29-35. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/3245316.
  • Skipitares, Theodora. "The Tension of Modern Bunraku." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 26, no. 1, 2004, pp. 13-21. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/3246436
  • Alland, Alexander. "The Construction of Reality and Unreality in Japanese Theatre." The Drama Review: TDR, vol. 23, no. 2, 1979, pp. 3-10. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/1145211. 
  • KOTT, JAN, and Boleslaw Taborski. "Bunraku and Kabuki, Or, about Imitation." Salmagundi, no. 35, 1976, pp. 99-109. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/40546952
Takarazuka Review, 
  • Steele, Peter. "Memorializing Colonialism: Images of the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia in Japanese Popular Theatre." Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2012, pp. 528-49. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/23359528
  • Silverberg, Miriam. "Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan." Boundary 2, vol. 18, no. 3, 1991, pp. 61-89. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/303203
Geisha Dances
 
  • “Japan’s Geisha.” The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), vol. 7, no. 3, 1983, pp. 39–39. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45265967
  • LINK TO IMAGES IN JSTOR
  • BINGHAM, BARRY. “ASIAN PANORAMA, WITH DANCING FIGURES.” The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 30, no. 3, 1954, pp. 392–401. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/26440127.
  • Komatsu, Hiroshi, and Ben Brewster. “The Lumière Cinématographe and the Production of the Cinema in Japan in the Earliest Period.” Film History, vol. 8, no. 4, 1996, pp. 431–438. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3815392

Other related articles:
  • Takakuwa, Yoko. “Performing Marginality: The Place of the Player and of ‘Woman’ in Early Modern Japanese Culture.” New Literary History, vol. 27, no. 2, 1996, pp. 213–225. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/20057348.
  • Morley, Carolyn. “The Tender-Hearted Shrews: The Woman Character in Kyôgen.” The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 22, no. 1, 1988, pp. 41–52. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/489335

Chinese

Chinese
ebook: Kwan, SanSan. Kinesthetic City : Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=3055629.
ebook Siu, Wang-Ngai, and Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera : The Actor's Craft, Hong Kong University Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=1697058
OPERA:  Beijing Opera,  Peking Opera:
  • Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. "Chinese Opera Percussion from Model Opera to Tan Dun." China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception, by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle, U of Michigan P, 2017, pp. 163-85. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/j.ctt1qv5n9n.11.
  • Ludden, Yawen. “Making Politics Serve Music: Yu Huiyong, Composer and Minister of Culture.” (Beijing Opera )TDR (1988-), vol. 56, no. 2, 2012, pp. 152–168., www.jstor.org/stable/23262914
  • Wichmann, Elizabeth. “Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Beijing Opera Performance.” TDR (1988-), vol. 34, no. 1, 1990, pp. 146–178. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/1146013.
  • Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. “Chinese Opera Percussion from Model Opera to Tan Dun.”(Beijing Opera ) China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception, edited by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2017, pp. 163–185. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qv5n9n.11
  • (William Sun), Sun Huizhu. “TDR Comment: Performing Arts and Cultural Identity in the Era of Interculturalism.” (Beijing Opera ) TDR (1988-), vol. 53, no. 2, 2009, pp. 7–11. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/25599468
  • Guy, Nancy A. "Peking Opera as 'National Opera' in Taiwan: What's in a Name?" Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1995, pp. 85-103. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/1124469. 
  • Mackerras, Colin. “Peking Opera before the Twentieth Century.” Comparative Drama, vol. 28, no. 1, 1994, pp. 19–42. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/41153679
  • LIU, D.H. "THE PEKING OPERA." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 35, 1995, pp. 43-58. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/23889963
  • Richard F. S. Yang. “Behind the Bamboo Curtain: What the Communists Did to the Peking Opera.” Educational Theatre Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1969, pp. 60–66. JSTORwww.jstor.org/stable/3205778

Puppets

PUPPETS: Shadow puppets,  Rod puppets

CAVALLO, A. S. "ORIENTAL SHADOW PUPPETS." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 34, no. 3, 1954, p. 75. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41505174.
Chen, Fan Pen Li, and Bradford Clark. "A Survey of Puppetry in China (Summers 2008 and 2009)." Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010, pp. 333-65. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25782123.
Cohen, Alvin P. "A Taiwanese Puppeteer and His Theatre." Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, 1981, pp. 33-49. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/1178140.
Cohen, Matthew Isaac. "Introduction: Global Encounters in Southeast Asian Performing Arts." Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014, pp. 353-68. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43187430.
Dasgupta, Gautam. "Bunraku Miniatures." Performing Arts Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 29-35. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/3245316.
Diamond, Catherine. "The Masking and Unmasking of the Yu Theatre Ensemble." Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993, pp. 101-14. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/1124219. Accessed 5 May 2020.
SPEAIGHT, GEORGE. "PUPPETS AND THEIR HISTORY." Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 124, no. 5237, 1976, p. 254. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41372312.
Werle, Helga. "SWATOW (CH'AOCHOW) HORIZONTAL STICK PUPPETS." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 13, 1973, pp. 73-84. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23881536.

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