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"The Great World": Performance Supermarket
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 50, Number 2 (T 190), Summer 2006
- pp. 97-116
- Article
- Additional Information
Opened in central Shanghai in 1917, the Great World offers a perennial indoor playground that includes dramatic performances such as jinju (Peking Opera), huju (Shanghai Opera), yueju (Shaoxing Opera), huaju (Western-style Drama), and movies, as well as nondramatic performances such as conjuring, acrobatics, amusement rides, sports, gambling, and erotic encounters which have changed over time depending on political, social, and cultural situations.