{"id":945,"date":"1992-09-07T21:51:08","date_gmt":"1992-09-08T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-07-07T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:56:44","slug":"pei-yu-boy-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/pei-yu-boy-actress\/","title":{"rendered":"Pei Yu: Boy Actress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1992fall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1992<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pei.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-946\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"pei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pei.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of Pei Yu\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/26984402\">Pei Yu: Boy Actress. By George Soulie de Morant Alamo\u00a0Square Press, 1991. Originally printed in French, 1925.\u00a0$19.95. (ISBN 0-9624751-3-0) Paper. $12.95 (ISBN 0-9624751-4-9)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fascinating book is a novel based on the life\u00a0of a young man during the last dynasty of China. The\u00a0man, known as a hsiang-k&#8217;ung, or boy-actress, enacted the\u00a0parts of women on stage. Offstage, the hsiang-k&#8217;ung were\u00a0also trained in literature, intellectual games and the\u00a0sensual arts, and they served the personal needs of\u00a0noblemen, who vied for their affections.<\/p>\n<p>This particular young man, Pei-Yu, rose to fame as\u00a0a singer and actress-actor. The story is told by George\u00a0Soulie de Morant, a French novelist of the turn of the\u00a0century who lived in China during the final years before the republic. The author writes, &#8220;In this work I wanted to portray the souls of the actors, the souls that were of an often admirable nobility &#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This book is highly recommended for libraries with an established gay\/lesbian collection, or for any library wishinglo take a wonderful journey into another time and place, of tastes and passions of classes of people long forgotten by contemporary China.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>David R. Hardee<\/strong><br \/>\nStudent, University of South Carolina<br \/>\nCollege of Library and Infonnation Science<br \/>\nColumbia, SC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1992. Pei Yu: Boy Actress. By George Soulie de Morant Alamo\u00a0Square Press, 1991. Originally printed in French, 1925.\u00a0$19.95. (ISBN 0-9624751-3-0) Paper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}