List of Illustrations and Table*
Acknowledgments
Overture
1. Looking Back at Opera in Late Imperial China
2. Changing Discourses on China’s Popular Drama
3. The Reformation of Beijing Opera in Shanghai
4. Reformed Opera on the Shanghai Stage
5. Reformed Opera in Xi’an
6. Politicization and Radicalization
Finale
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
* Illustrations and Table
Figures
1.1. A huge theater was erected opposite the British yacht
2.1. Yu Shangyuan
2.2. Xiong Foxi
2.3. Slaughterhouse
2.4. Peasants/actors performing Crossing Ferry
3.1. “New Machinery for the Stage”
3.2. “Opening Celebration for the New Stage”
4.1. A Wronged Soul in a World of Opium Addicts
4.2. “Being Humiliated,” a scene from A Wronged Soul in a World of Opium Addicts
4.3. Feng Zihe performing in Box with Hundreds of Treasures
4.4. Advertisement for performances of The Blood of Ezhou
4.5. Shenbao theater advertisements including plot description of The Dream of Restoration
4.6. Enlargement of the advertisement for The Dream of Restoration
5.1. Li Tongxuan
5.2. Sun Renyu
5.3. The Yisushe as it stands today in Xi’an
5.4. The Yisushe of 1930
5.5. The Snatching Brocade Tower
5.6. Advertisements for the Yisushe’s debut performance in Beijing
5.7. The jacket for the VCD version of Three Drops of Blood
Maps
3.1. Distribution of Shanghai theaters, 1860–79
3.2. Distribution of Shanghai theaters, 1880–99
3.3. Distribution of Shanghai theaters, 1900–1920
3.4. The Sixteenth District
5.1. The Manchu city and some other important sites of Xi’an
5.2. The distribution of commercial huiguan in Xi’an of the late Qing period
Table
1. Features of opera performance
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