Cover Illustration: Backstage performance abstract giving lists of characters and the actors to perform them scene by scene for a Cheng Yanqiu play that premiered in 1924. Pasted on slips with actors’ names (in this case the slips of paper are red or faded red and are clearly no longer complete) are used to update such an abstract. Wang Wenzhang
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rolston, David L., 1952– author.
Title: Inscribing Jingju/Peking opera : textualization and performance, authorship and censorship of the “national drama” of China from the late Qing to the present / by David L. Rolston.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877–9425 ; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021011864 (print) | LCCN 2021011865 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004461925 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004463394 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Operas, Chinese—China—Beijing—History and criticism
Classification: LCC ML1751.C58 B447 2021 (print) | LCC ML1751.C58 (ebook) | DDC 792.50951/156—dc23
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ISSN 1877-9425
ISBN 978-90-04-46192-5 (hardback)
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