BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Chinese opera"

 

Chinese opera Summary

Chinese opera

Print-Friendly
About 15 pages (4,538 words) in 2 products

"Chinese opera" Search Results
Contents:
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Chinese opera Information
2,686 words, approx. 9 pages
<p>Chinese Opera (Chinese: 戏曲/戲曲; Pinyin: xìqǔ) is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China. There are numerous regional branches of opera with its original root starting in the dynastic periods </p> if (window.showTocToggle) {...


News and Journals
summary from source:

AP News
Taiwan eyes editing China from textbooks
7/22/2007: 608 words, approx. 2 pages
Taiwan plans to revise school textbooks to drop references that recognize Chinese historical figures, places and artifacts as "national," an official said Sunday.The announcement is the latest in a series of moves by the island in the past few months to assert its sovereignty as...
summary from source:

AP News
China tightens controls on own media
2/5/2007: 863 words, approx. 3 pages
At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.International PEN, a writer's organization that calls itself the world's oldest human rights...


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
summary from source:


Essay Grade: 86%
God's Will Is the Highest Power
1,852 words, approx. 6 pages
How Greek Drama relates to Chinese Opera: If it is true that traditional Chinese opera is an art form written and performed through exactly controlled masks, makeup, and props to please and amuse the gods (who are symbolized as figures of humor and intelligence), then the same might be said for classical ceremonial Greek dramas, which were done in amphitheatres as civic/religious events.


 

Chinese opera

Print-Friendly
About 15 pages (4,538 words) in 2 products


Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy