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Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century

Li Ruru (Ed.)

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Description for Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century Hardback. An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theatre. Scholars from around the globe explore wide-ranging topics including recent approaches to classical theatre, propaganda theatre, and the challenges of independent theatres. Editor(s): Ruru, Li. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theatre. Scholars from around the globe explore wide-ranging topics including recent approaches to classical theatre, propaganda theatre, and the challenges of independent theatres.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom

Number of pages

296

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2015

Series

Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

Condition

New

Weight

498g

Number of Pages

282

Place of Publication

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781137567475

SKU

V9781137567475

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99-15

About Li Ruru (Ed.)

Shelby CHAN, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong, China. Xiaomei CHEN, University of California, Davis, USA. Katherine Hui-ling CHOU, National Central University, Taiwan. Tarryn Li-Min CHUN, Harvard University, USA. Rossella FERRARI, University of London, UK. Gilbert C.F. FONG, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong, China. LIN Wei-yu, National University of Tainan, Taiwan. Siyuan LIU, University of British Columbia, Canada. MA ... Read more

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Originating as a foreign import, the Chinese spoken drama huaju has become in the twenty-first century not only a major Chinese dramatic form, but an important part of modern world drama. Staging China provides the reader with an important insight into this form through a detailed analysis of a series of key productions; it also discusses both the dynamics of ... Read morethese productions and their reflection of and placement within their social and cultural milieu. This is a ground-breaking and much needed project. - Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA Drama studies has not been popular with scholars of modern Chinese literature, despite the fact the genre exerted tremendous impact on Chinese culture and politics, from the May Fourth period through the Cultural Revolution. Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize winner for 2000 and the first Chinese ever to win the Prize, is best known for his career as a playwright. Ruru Li's new edited book Staging China is the first comprehensive English-language study of Chinese drama in the new Millennium. Through rich historical surveys and case studies, the book maps out the complex of trajectories in which Chinese drama re-modernized itself amid political dynamics, artistic innovations, and intellectual debates. Historically engaged and theoretically provocative, Staging China will become a required reader for anyone interested in Chinese performing arts, cultural politics, and theatre studies. I give the volume my strongest recommendation. - David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA In Staging China, leading international scholars of Chinese theatre introduce the work of the most important contemporary Chinese playwrights, directors, and theatre companies. This outstanding volume considers together in English for the first time significant theatre productions of the past fifteen years in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Through performance reconstruction and historiography, these essays track the economic, social, and political conditions that have prompted seismic shifts in the Chinese theatre industry, making this collection compulsory reading for anyone seeking to understand Chinese culture in the twenty-first century. - Claire Conceison, Professor of Theatre Studies, Duke University, USA Show Less

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