WU Xiaoru's Construction of Narrative Style and Critical Theory of Peking Opera Viewed from the Perspective of"Transmission"
WU Xiaoru is a fan of Peking Opera,a critic of drama,a cultural scholar,and a university teacher.In his opera activi-ties of more than half a century,one of his outstanding achievements is to consciously carry out extensive and unique criticism of Pe-king Opera and to construct a theory centered on"transmission",which specifically includes three dimensions:criticizing the"non-transmission",encouraging"successors",and calling for the"true tradition",thus revealing the rich connotations contained in"transmission".Based on these,he also created a number of new terms for the study of opera,which enabled the"old operas"to escape from the binary logic of the separation between the old and new,and instead explored the path of"transmission"intemally.The"unorthodox"articles such as reviews on operas and performances also has become WU's most representative"narrative style".WU's criticism on Peking Opera and its theorization reflect the general trend of modernization and transformation of the traditional operas since the 1930s.To a certain extent,this is also the theoretical legacy and historical resources that must be faced in the in-heritance and innovation of operas today.
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