圖書信息
出版社: 中央編譯出版社; 第1版 (2010年6月1日)
外文書名: The Story of Peking Opera
正文語種: 英語
開本: 16
條形碼: 9781921678363
尺寸: 23.4 x 18 x 2.2 cm
重量: 921 g
作者簡介
Wu jiang is the president of China National Peking Opera Company. His main works include a dozen of Peking Opera scenarios of Guan Zhong Becomes Prime Minister, Eight Delicacies Soup, the Story of a Revenging Girl, the Life of Martyrs, Lu River and Yi Mountain，Princess Turandot and Princess Wencheng，TV artistic play A Handful Snow. He has made enormous and effective contributions to the creation of new plays，restoration of out standing traditional plays and cultivating Peking Opera talents.
內容簡介
《京劇的故事(英文版)》內容簡介：For westerners, Peking Opera is a kind of oriental art that is either ancient or mysterious. The magnificent stage colors and vigorous martial movements have become a symbol of Peking Opera, winning admiration from audience across the world. Yet these extensive and warming scenes arc not all about Peking Opera. As the representative of the Chinese traditional operas, Peking Opera covers every aspects of the Chinese classic culture. Due to the impediment of language and cultural background, it is difficult for Western audience to further understand the connotation of Peking Opera.
This book includes 10 classic Peking Opera plays as examples to introduce and explain the performance skills, stage attire, as well as the historical background of the plays, the humanistic spirit they convey while describing the plot of the plays. It enables western readers to learn the stories of the plays, understand some common knowledge of Peking Opera performance while reading the book. Through these Peking Opera plays, they can gain their primary cognition of theChinese traditional culture.
目錄
Reading China through Peking Opera
Orphan of Zhao
Images of a Group of Noble Characters
A Gathering of Heroes
Confrontation of wise men in ancient China
Dragon and Phoenix Present Auspiciousness
An Propitious Play With A Happy Ending
The Fourth Son Visits His Mother
Familial Affection Struggling in Flames of War
Female Generals of the Yang Family
Heroines in Repelling Foreign Invasion
The Wild Boar Forest
From a Commoner to a Great Hero
Legend of the White Snake
A Spirit in Pursuit of Humanity
Four Newly Appointed Officials
An Old Upright Official Redresses a Deep Wrong
The Story of Yutangchun
Tragic-comedian Love between Son of A Minister and A Prostitute
A Jewelry Pouch
Life Is Hard to Predict
