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Reading the Right Text : An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama / ed. by Xiaomei Chen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824825058
  • 9780824845117
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dead Visiting the Living, Liu Shugang -- 3. The World's Top Restaurant, He Jiping -- 4. Black Stones, Yang Limin -- 5. Jiang Qing and Her Husbands, Sha Yexin -- 6. Green Barracks, Zhang Lili -- 7. Wild Grass, Zhang Mingyuan -- Notes on Playwrights -- Notes on Editor and Translators
Summary: Reading the Right Text introduces six new plays from contemporary China, five of which are translated here into English for the first time. Chosen from a wide variety of well-received dramas of the period, each play represents the traditions and changes in a particular subgenre: regional theater, proletarian theater, women's theater, history plays, and experimental theater. Xiaomei Chen's wide-ranging and perceptive introduction locates the plays in the political and cultural history of modern China to demonstrate the interrelationship between theater, history, society, and everyday experience. She highlights the origin and development of the different sub-genres and outlines critical approaches from numerous fields, including gender studies, performance studies, subaltern studies, and comparative cultural studies. Quite apart from their importance as theater, these plays are crucial for a fully rounded understanding of the cultural dynamics involved in the transition from Maoist to post-Mao China, from socialist realist drama to the post-socialist response to a market economy and a society in flux.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824845117

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dead Visiting the Living, Liu Shugang -- 3. The World's Top Restaurant, He Jiping -- 4. Black Stones, Yang Limin -- 5. Jiang Qing and Her Husbands, Sha Yexin -- 6. Green Barracks, Zhang Lili -- 7. Wild Grass, Zhang Mingyuan -- Notes on Playwrights -- Notes on Editor and Translators

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Reading the Right Text introduces six new plays from contemporary China, five of which are translated here into English for the first time. Chosen from a wide variety of well-received dramas of the period, each play represents the traditions and changes in a particular subgenre: regional theater, proletarian theater, women's theater, history plays, and experimental theater. Xiaomei Chen's wide-ranging and perceptive introduction locates the plays in the political and cultural history of modern China to demonstrate the interrelationship between theater, history, society, and everyday experience. She highlights the origin and development of the different sub-genres and outlines critical approaches from numerous fields, including gender studies, performance studies, subaltern studies, and comparative cultural studies. Quite apart from their importance as theater, these plays are crucial for a fully rounded understanding of the cultural dynamics involved in the transition from Maoist to post-Mao China, from socialist realist drama to the post-socialist response to a market economy and a society in flux.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)