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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 387–409.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Sunhee Koo Abstract Since 2000, a number of performing troupes have been established in South Korea, made up largely of musicians and dancers who were professionally trained in North Korea prior to their migration and presenting a range of music and dances related to both the North and South...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 545–591.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the internal “other” within China, Zhang's mass-produced minority tabloids and widely traveled minority dance troupes of the late 1940s succeeded in mounting a determined eleventh-hour propaganda attempt to maintain the perceived territorial integrity of the Chinese state, even as the very foundations of state...
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in How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 13. The Xinjiang dance troupe pays homage to China's guofu (national father) at Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 535–554.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Donald S. Sutton Abstract The procession troupes at the gods' festivals so common today in southern Taiwan, as on the China mainland in the past, perform a kind of ritual drama. The processions themselves occur on god's birthdays, in great ceremonies of renewal ( jiao ) or, in a more abbreviated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Emily Wilcox Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution . By Brian James DeMare . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xii, 258 pp. ISBN: 9781107076327 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 113–141.
Published: 01 February 2014
... an encore run later the same year throughout colonial Korea. The play was commissioned by Murayama Tomoyoshi and his Shinkyō Theater Troupe in Japan. The script was penned in Japanese by Chang Hyǒkchu, a bilingual writer from the colony. This article examines a forgotten moment of colonial “collaboration...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 949–984.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Sophie Volpp Abstract Actors were luxury goods traded among the elite in late Ming and early Qing China. Not only individual actors but entire troupes were sold, bestowed upon friends, and bequeathed upon relatives. Their circulation served to create and maintain networks of social exchange...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 13–29.
Published: 01 November 1962
... displayed on both sides of the road. Farther on, there were amusements—the revolving cradles and merry-go-rounds, gramophones shrilling loudly, a snake-charmer, a troupe of tight-rope dancers. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 1 Viṭhobā (“Father Vishnu” in Marathi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 71–99.
Published: 01 February 2003
..., from propaganda posters and radio broadcasts to sophisticated literary magazines, jazz bands, ballet troupes, and symphony orchestras, were weapons in what has recently come to be called the “Cultural Cold War” (Saunders 1999). Studies of the cultural cold war have proliferated since the late 1990s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 258–260.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., troupe leader, playwright, and theorist—perfected the classical fourteenth-century masked dance-drama form of noh. His claim to enduring Japanese and even international fame is largely attributable to a series of twenty-one treatises covering the history of the art, proper training methods, role...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 676–677.
Published: 01 August 1987
... traditions to problems faced by contemporary theater troupes. All of Suzuki's disparate musings, reflections, and anecdotes are unified by his concern for the theater artist's struggle to establish artistic continuity and a true connection to a community. This concern is deeply tied to his sense...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1109–1111.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as “a student of the martial arts”—of the military retainer (Jiajiang) troupe that made him one of its performers. With his title, Boretz playfully modifies the standard categories of Chinese religion proposed by the Taiwan anthropologists David Jordan and Arthur Wolf in the late 1960s, replacing “ancestors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 274–275.
Published: 01 February 2008
... book on the rise and fall of Peking opera as the state-promoted form of “national opera” in Taiwan. From its initial performance, likely in 1891 when a Qing official engaged a Shanghai troupe, Peking opera in Taiwan has been intimately linked with the island's mainland Chinese overlords and Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 783–785.
Published: 01 August 2004
...) [editor s note: this book is reviewed in this issue on p. 767]. Donald Sutton s new book further demonstrates how this dynamism is manifested in ritual troupes called Jiajiang, here translated as Infernal Generals (lit. household generals groups of eight to twelve masked dancers who perform at jiao...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 477–478.
Published: 01 August 1990
... with ritual dramas performed by specialized troupes during festival processions in southern Taiwan. He finds that while the predominant message of such festivals is one of support for the established moral order, divergent viewpoints are expressed. Thus he believes the troupes' performances can be seen...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1140–1142.
Published: 01 November 1999
... images shape this depiction. The visually attractive CD collects images of the posters with commentary, a long introductory essay ("Overview discussions of the troupes, additional essays by Imai Yoshiro ("Japanese Posters: A History 1860-1980") and Thomas G. Kovacs ("Six Posters: A Western Perspective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 February 2013
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, “ The formation of Namsadang (Korean itinerant performer) Troupes: Chapter One of A Study of Namsadang Troupes by Shim Usŏng' ,” Acta Koreana
9 / 2 ( 2006 ): pp. 31 – 57
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 911–912.
Published: 01 August 1968
... of the various peoples back to prehistoric times, the origins of numerous theatrical genres, a description of the stories and rituals around which dramas are built, information about music, dance, production techniques, the training and social status of performers, the distribution of troupes, their sources...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 780–781.
Published: 01 August 1977
... and symbolic gestures." The third is composed of "plays of a troupe called the Bhaktamal Natak The Miracle Plays of Mathura. BY NORVIN HEIN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. xi, 313 pp. Plates, Appendix, Glossary, Index. $18.50 Mandall, which dramatize favorite stories of Vaishnava saints...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 779–780.
Published: 01 August 1977
... . . . illuminates the words of narrative songs with fleeting impersonations and symbolic gestures." The third is composed of "plays of a troupe called the Bhaktamal Natak The Miracle Plays of Mathura. BY NORVIN HEIN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. xi, 313 pp. Plates, Appendix, Glossary, Index. $18.50...
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