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Full referenceYeh, Catherine Vance, “A Public Love Affair or a Nasty Game? The Chinese Tabloid Newspaper and the Rise of the Opera Singer As Star” (2003)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Yeh, Catherine Vance
Title“A Public Love Affair or a Nasty Game? The Chinese Tabloid Newspaper and the Rise of the Opera Singer As Star”
Year2003
JournalEuropean Journal of East Asian Studies
Volume2
Number1
Start page13
End page51
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordsculture; press
AbstractEarly-20th-century Chinese tabloid newspapers created the phenomenon of Peking Opera singers as pop stars. The tabloids, or xiaobao, flourished in Shanghai along with the entertainment industry. As a treaty port with foreign concessions, Shanghai avoided the legal restrictions and court influence of life in Beijing. Opera singers had long been social outcasts, classed lower than prostitutes, so turning them into media stars broke with tradition. Individual patrons had typically influenced the success or failure of an opera singer until the newspapers took over. Focusing first on the lives of famous courtesans, the tabloids turned to opera singers, especially dan, or female impersonators, by the 1910's, leading to the growth of theater criticism but becoming increasingly political as well.
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