Re-view: Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-858
Author(s):  
Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
Keyword(s):  
Female Impersonators

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America.

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Martin S. Weinberg ◽  
Esther Newton ◽  
Laud Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Female Impersonators

Performing Gender at the Beginning of Modern Chinese Theatre

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
New School ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Female Impersonators ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
Spoken Drama

In the early twentieth century, female impersonators in Japan's first Western-style theatre, shinpa (new school drama), employed gender performance conventions based on kabuki onnagata and European melodramatic techniques. Shinpa performers influenced the performance of gender in early Chinese spoken drama. Chinese student actors emulated shinpa conventions in Tokyo and popularized them in Shanghai in the 1910s, where they were accepted as being accurate enactments of modern women.

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