Lychees and mirrors: local opera, cinema and diaspora in the Chinese cultural cold war

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Lychees and mirrors: local opera, cinema and diaspora in the Chinese cultural cold war

This paper explores the fate of a southern Fujianese opera (liyuanxi) play that was reformed over the course of the early 1950s and eventually made into the first full-length film to be produced in southern Fujianese dialect (Minnanyu) in the People's Republic of China. It does this, however, i...

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Main Author:	Taylor, Jeremy E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
Subjects:	Chen San Wuniang Chinese diaspora Cold War liyuanxi Opera films Opera reform Southern Fujian
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46946/

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