Title Ritual opera, operatic ritual : "Mu-lien rescues his mother" in Chinese popular culture / edited by David Johnson

Published Berkeley, Calif. : Chinese Popular Culture Project, [1989] ©1989

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Description xiii, 324 pages ; 21 cm Series Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project ; 1 Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project ; 1 Contents Actions speak louder than words : the cultural significance of Chinese ritual opera / David Johnson -- Lei Yu-sheng ("Thunder is noisy") and Mu-lien in the theatrical and funerary traditions of Fukien / Kenneth Dean -- Mu-lien "operas" in Taiwanese funeral rituals / Qiu Kunliang -- Mu-lien plays in Taoist liturgical context / Kristofer Schipper -- Mu-lien dramas in Puli, Taiwan / Gary Seaman -- The ritual behind the opera : a fragmentary ethnography of the ghost festival, A.D. 400-1900 / Stephen F. Teiser -- The spiritual saga of woman Huang : from pollution to purification / Beata Grant -- The Mu-lien operas : a selective bibliography / Dajuin Yao Notes "Papers from the International Workshop on the Mu-lien Operas" -- T.p "With an additional contribution on the Woman Huang legend, by Beata Grant" -- T.p Bibliography Bibliography: pages 312-324 SUBJECT Mulian jiumu -- Congresses Subject Opera -- China. Operas, Chinese. Theater -- China. SUBJECT China http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091151 -- Popular culture -- Congresses Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Johnson, David G. (David George), 1938- Chinese Popular Culture Project. International Workshop on the Mu-lien Operas (1987 August 9-13 : Berkeley, Calif.) LC no. 89085830 ISBN 0962432709

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