Power of Freedom: Hu Shih’s Political Writings - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472075268 ISBN 13 : 9780472075263

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Synopsis

Modern Chinese theatre once entailed a variety of forms, but now it primarily refers to spoken drama, or huaju. Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre looks beyond scripts to examine visuality, acoustics, and performance between the two World Wars, the period when huaju gained canonical status. The backstage in this study expands from being a physical place offstage to a culturally and historically constructed social network that encompasses theatre networks, academies, and government institutions—as well as the collective work of dramatists, amateurs, and cultural entrepreneurs. Early huaju was not a mere imitation of Western realist theatre, as it is commonly understood, but a creative synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetics. Charting huaju’s evolution from American colleges to China’s coastal cities and then to its rural hinterland, Man He demonstrates how the formation of modern Chinese theatre challenges dominant understandings of modernism and brings China to the center of discussions on transnational modernities and world theatres.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chih-p'ing Chou is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.

Carlos Yu-Kai Lin is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472075268
• ISBN 13: 9780472075263
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Chou Chih-Ping, Lin Carlos
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