List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction: Gender and the Model Works; Chapter Two Role Assignment and Gender: Resetting the Paradigms; Chapter Three Costume in the Yangbanxi: Gendering the Revolutionary Body; Chapter Four Gender and the Kinesics of Yangbanxi Ballet; Chapter Five Feminising Leadership in Song of the Dragon River; Chapter Six The Yangbanxi Heroine and the Historical Tradition of the Chinese Woman Warrior; Chapter Seven Gendering the Counter-Revolution: The Feminisation of Villainy
Summary
Drawing on theories ranging from cultural studies to sociology, this book offers a new understanding of gender in Maoist model theatre (yangbanxi) that acknowledges the complex interplay of traditional, modern, Chinese and foreign gender ideologies manifested in the works
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275), filmography and index
