Jiang Kun's Masterpieces of Xiangsheng Performance

Author: Wang Zhangwen
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Xiangsheng is the art of language. Its performance requires concise and fluent language, lively, sharp, yet humorous and subtle. Its language is both artistic colloquial speech and literary language that is rooted in daily life. Xiangsheng is an art that makes people laugh, but it doesn't provoke shallow or helpless laughter. It is a profound humor that brings people to laughter and leaves them with endless. Today, Xiangsheng performances use Mandarin, which everyone can understand. Therefore, no other art form has a broader audience base than Xiangsheng. Xiangsheng is the art of language, and its performance requires concise, lively, sharp, yet humorous and subtle language. Its language is both artistic colloquial speech and literary language that is rooted in daily life. This book collects more than 400,000 words of the main representative works of the highly respected performing artist Jiang Kun, specifically reflecting the achievements and style of Jiang Kun's Xiangsheng art.