Bai Xianyong on Kunqu Opera (Second Edition)

by Bai Xianyong

With the introduction of Kunqu Opera written by Bai Xianyong, interviews, dialogue records, and the variation and origin written by experts, together with stills and commemorative photos, the exquisite overall design presents the diversity and beauty of Kunqu Opera, attracting more people to know Kunqu Opera. The contents Preface - Professor Liu Jun from Nanjing University 1. Shocking changes - the performance of Shanghai Kunqu Opera's Changsheng Palace 2. The unique skills of Kunqu Opera's charming performance - Bai Xianyong's interview with Hua Wenyi 3. Understanding the deep cultural significance of Kunqu Opera - Bai Xianyong's interview with an old artist of the Biography generation, and more...

Hardcover

Published March 31, 2022

About the author

Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (Chinese: 白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pe̍h Sian-ióng; born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer based in Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.