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... Chinese opera ) . Popular theatre forms in China and Japan are intensely theatrical , though they lack literary qualities which would recommend them to the intelligentsia . Indeed , Kabuki in Japan and Peking opera in China have had ...
... Chinese opera ) . Popular theatre forms in China and Japan are intensely theatrical , though they lack literary qualities which would recommend them to the intelligentsia . Indeed , Kabuki in Japan and Peking opera in China have had ...
Page 473
... Chinese students Influence who had studied in Japan and there learned of Western of Western plays . In 1907 a Chinese adaptation of Uncle Tom's drama Cabin was successfully staged in Shanghai by students , marking the beginning of a ...
... Chinese students Influence who had studied in Japan and there learned of Western of Western plays . In 1907 a Chinese adaptation of Uncle Tom's drama Cabin was successfully staged in Shanghai by students , marking the beginning of a ...
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... China because modern court dress in Japan , which has been little changed since the 12th century , has many purely Chinese characteristics . The most The most important court costumes of Japan are the important sokutai of the emperor ...
... China because modern court dress in Japan , which has been little changed since the 12th century , has many purely Chinese characteristics . The most The most important court costumes of Japan are the important sokutai of the emperor ...
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