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Yue Opera’s Ability to Cater to My Taste Loriya Thao As a female and modern reader/audience, there are several aspects of Yue Opera that are able to cater to my taste and some aspects that don’t. This being my first interaction with Yue Opera, the aspect that stood out to…

Important Values in Yue Opera By Carmen Huang A very important value reflected in Yue Opera is the empowerment of women through their ways of circumventing traditions and boundaries in realms that suppress their agency. In “Butterfly Lovers,” for example, Zhu Yingtai manages to convince her father to allow her to…

To You, What Moral Values Reflected in the Yue Operas that We Have Watched are Still Valid and Important to Today’s Society? By Sarah Eisner In several of the plays we have been presented with, in opera form as well as the ballad versions, we have seen many of the…

Should Traditional Masterpieces be Filmed as a Movie or TV Series? By Qianyun Wu Should traditional masterpieces be filmed as a movie or TV series? I have seen the new TV episodes of Dream of the Red Chamber and The Romance of West Chamber which are both occupies an important…

Supernatural Beings, Mortals, and Relationships Between the Two By  Miranda Honigberg As a massive fan of Western mythology, I have found it is rare to see a human marrying a supernatural being in their stories. It is much more common for them have affairs with each other, or for a supernatural…

What Moral Values Reflected in the Yue Operas By Wenfei Jia Yue Opera is a popular theatrical form performed by female actresses and mainly for female audience. As a female and modern audience, I think there are two moral values reflected in the Yue Opera that are still valid and…

Supernatural and Human Love By Toni Soto In the Western literary tradition, there is almost no mention of a supernatural being marrying a human, while in the Chinese literary tradition, the match may be star-crossed, but marriage entirely possible. In the Western literary tradition, love between a supernatural being and a…

Value Reflected in Yue Opera By Meilian Wu I think there are two values that reflected through Yue Opera that are still valid and important in today’s society. The first is equality between gender, and the second is commonly acknowledged virtue system within a society.  One major trait of Yue…

Separation Between Humans and the Supernatural By Yvonne Tran I noticed that humans and the supernatural exist with the willingness to help one another in the Yue opera performances that we have seen, which is the opposite of how the supernatural and humans interact in Western stories. In the opera version…