Chapter 4 After Xikao: The Rise of Theater Studies, Copyright, and New Censorship Regimes

In: Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera
Author:
David L. Rolston
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406–481
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004463394_006

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Abstract

One of the criticisms of Xikao was that it was not “scientific” enough. Chapter 4 shows that it was in the wake of the appearance of Xikao that different people advocated the study of theater as a discipline and began to publish periodicals that also took that point of view. Those periodicals published Jingju play texts but did so in entirely new ways, one of which was to proclaim that the copyright and performance rights were retained by the playwright. It was also during this period that the Republic got more serious about enforcing copyright and censoring plays.

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Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera

Textualization and Performance, Authorship and Censorship of the “National Drama” of China from the Late Qing to the Present

Series:  Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, Volume: 12
Cover Inscribing <i>Jingju</i>/Peking Opera
E-Book ISBN:
9789004463394
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
02 Jul 2021

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