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Fu Quanxiang
Fu Quanxiang (3 August 1923 – 24 October 2017) was a well-known Chinese actress of Yue opera. In the Chinese press she was named as one of the ten leading female actors in Yue opera. In the view of others she was one of only two truly famous artists, the other being Yuan Xuefen. Her repertoire included ''Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai'', ''The Tale of Li Wa'', ''Du Shiniang ''Du Shiniang'' (杜十娘) is a popular story and theatre plot in China. It exists as a Yue opera, as a Sichuan opera, and also as a 2006 "hybrid" Chinese-language western-style opera in the repertoire of the China Central Opera. The plot concern ...'', and others. References 1 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheng County
Shengzhou (), formerly Shengxian or Sheng County, is a county-level city in central Zhejiang, south of the Hangzhou Bay, and is the south-eastern part of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing. It is about 1.5 hours drive from the provincial capital of Hangzhou through the Hangzhou-Ningbo, Shangyu-Sanmen Expressway. As of the 2020 census, its population was 675,226, but 1,094,262 lived in the built-up area made of Shengzhou City and Xinchang County largely being conurbated. Economy The city is the national and international top producer of ties. Art Shengzhou is the origin of the Yue opera, the second most popular Chinese opera. Administrative divisions As of 2020, Shengzhou is divided into 4 Subdistricts, 10 Towns and 1 Township. Subdistricts *Shanhu Subdistrict (剡湖街道) *Sanjiang Subdistrict (三江街道) *Lushan Subdistrict (鹿山街道) *Pukou Subdistrict (浦口街道) Towns (镇, ''zhen'') *Ganlin (甘霖) *Changle (长乐) *Chongren (崇仁) *Huangze (黄泽) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Shiniang
''Du Shiniang'' (杜十娘) is a popular story and theatre plot in China. It exists as a Yue opera, as a Sichuan opera, and also as a 2006 "hybrid" Chinese-language western-style opera in the repertoire of the China Central Opera. The plot concerns the courtesan Du Shiniang, Miss Tenth-Daughter Du, who falls in love with a literati, Li Jia. ''"Du Shiniang Angrily Sinks a Treasure Chest"'' is a short parody novel by Ming Dynasty novelist Feng Menglong Feng Menglong (1574–1646), courtesy names Youlong (), Gongyu (), Ziyou (), or Eryou (), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou County, now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province. Life Fe ... Character Du Shiniang is one of the central characters in both "The Legend of the Emotionally Negative Lovers" and "Du Shiniang Sinks the Hundred Treasure Boxes". For the image of Du Shiniang in the two works, researchers generally believe that the portrayal of the main character Du Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victims Of The Cultural Revolution
Victim(s) or The Victim may refer to: People * Crime victim * Victim, in psychotherapy, a posited role in the Karpman drama triangle model of transactional analysis Films and television * ''The Victim'' (1916 film), an American silent film by the Fox Film Corporation starring vamp Valeska Suratt * ''The Victim'' (1930 film), an American film starring Esther Howard * ''Victim'' (1961 film), a British drama film featuring Dirk Bogarde * ''The Victim'' (1972 film), an television film produced for American Broadcasting Company * ''The Victim'' (1980 film), a Hong Kong film directed by and starring Sammo Hung * ''Victim'' (1999 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Ringo Lam * ''The Victim'' (2006 film), a Thai horror-thriller film written by Monthon Arayangkoon * ''Victim'' (2010 film), an American indie film directed by Matt Eskandari * ''The Victim'' (2011 film), an American horror film written by and starring Michael Biehn * ''The Victim'' (2012 film), a Konkani theatrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yue Opera Actresses
Yue or Yueh ( ) may refer to: Places * Guangdong, abbreviated (), a province of China * Yue Nan (), the Chinese name for Vietnam * Zhejiang, commonly abbreviated (), a province of China Languages * Yue Chinese, a branch of Chinese, spoken primarily in and around Guangdong and Guangxi * Cantonese, a dialect of Yue Chinese, widely spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau * Old Yue language, an extinct language or languages spoken by the Baiyue people of southern China People * Yue, a Chinese surname derived from Mandarin ( or ) or Cantonese () ** Yue Fei, Song dynasty general ** Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer * Yue, a Chinese given name derived from Mandarin (e.g. , , , and ) Fictional characters * Yue (''Cardcaptor Sakura''), a character in the anime and manga séries ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' * Yue Ayase, a character from the anime and manga series ''Negima'' * Yue Kato, a character in the manga series ''Angel Sanctuary'' * Princess Yue, a character in the televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Shengzhou
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Actresses From Shaoxing
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Deaths
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1923 Births
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The Tale Of Li Wa
''The Tale of Li Wa'' () is a short novella by Bai Xingjian (or Bo Xingjian). Song Geng (C: 宋 耕, P: ''Sòng Gēng''), author of ''The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture'', wrote that this was one of three Tang Dynasty works that were "particularly influential in the development of the '' caizi-jiaren'' model". There is a poem by Yuan Zhen, "The Ballad of Li Wa," that is a companion to the novel.Feng, p. 40. It was translated into English by Arthur Waley, who used the title ''The Story of Miss Li'' and included it on pages 113-36 in the collection ''More Translations from the Chinese'', which was published in 1919 by Alfred A. Knopf. It was also translated into English by Glen Dudbridge, who used the title ''The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century''.Chan, Tak-hung Leo. ''The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and the Eighteenth-century Literati Storytelling''. University of Hawaii Press, 1998. , 97808248 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu and Shanghai to the north, Anhui to the northwest, Jiangxi to the west and Fujian to the south. To the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lies the Ryukyu Islands. The population of Zhejiang stands at 64.6 million, the 8th highest among China. It has been called 'the backbone of China' due to being a major driving force in the Chinese economy and being the birthplace of several notable persons, including the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and entrepreneur Jack Ma. Zhejiang consists of 90 counties (incl. county-level cities and districts). The area of Zhejiang was controlled by the Kingdom of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period. The Qin Empire later annexed it in 222 BC. Under the late Ming dynasty and the Qing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai
The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo () and Zhu Yingtai (), whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu (). The story was selected as one of China's Four Great Folktales by the "Folklore Movement" in the 1920s—the others being the Legend of the White Snake (''Baishezhuan''), Lady Meng Jiang, and The Cowherd and the Weaving Maid (''Niulang Zhinü''). Six cities in China have collaborated in 2004 on a formal application for the Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on the legend at UNESCO, submitted in 2006 through the Chinese Ministry of Culture. Legend The legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is set in the Eastern Jin dynasty (266–420 AD). Zhu Yingtai is the ninth child and only daughter of the wealthy Zhu family of Shangyu, Zhejiang. Although women are traditionally discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu manages to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Xuefen
Yuan Xuefen (26 March 1922 – 19 February 2011) was a noted performer in the Yue opera genre of Chinese opera. She has been called "arguably the most important actress in the recent history of Yueju haoxingopera". The only other artist to be ranked with her is Fu Quanxiang.Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Wing-chung Ho A. D. Stefanowska, Sue Wiles ''Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women'' Volume 2 2003 Page 170 "Fu Quanxiang Fu Quanxiang, b. 1923, as Sun Quanxiang in a village in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, is one of China's two most famous yueju artists, the other being Yuan Xuefen": Biography Yuan is most known for playing the title role in the 1946 production of ''Sister Xianglin'', an adaptation of a work by Lu Xun. Before beginning work on the adaptation of the work, she personally visited the home of Xu Guangping and Zhou Haiying, Lu Xun's wife and son, and asked their permission. According to Zhou, his mother quickly granted the request. Yuan is credited with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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