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Acting the right part : political theater and popular drama in contemporary China, 1966-1996
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ISBN: 0824824830 0824822870 Year: 2002 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press

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Pop goes the avant-garde : experimental theatre in contemporary China /.
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ISBN: 9780857420459 0857420453 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Seagull Books

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Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives in the fields of comparative literature, theater, performance, and culture studies, the book explores key artistic movements and phenomena that have emerged in China’s major cultural centers in the last several decades. It surveys the work of China’s most influential dramatists, directors and performance groups, with a special focus on Beijing-based playwright, director and filmmaker Meng Jinghui—the former enfant terrible of Beijing theater, who is now one of Asia’s foremost theater personalities. Through an extensive critique of theories of modernism and the avant-garde, the author reassesses the meanings, functions and socio-historical significance of this work in non-Western contexts by proposing a new theoretical construct—the pop avant-garde—and exploring new ways to understand and conceptualize aesthetic practices beyond Euro-American cultures and critical discourses.

China on stage : an American actress in the People's Republic
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ISBN: 0394468740 Year: 1972 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Random House

The Chinese theatre in modern times : from 1840 to the present day
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ISBN: 0870231960 9780870231964 Year: 1975 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts press

Theater and society : an anthology of contemporary Chinese drama
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ISBN: 076560308X 131745376X 1315698749 1317453778 0585201331 Year: 2015 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.


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Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre : from the word to the image.
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ISBN: 9004168281 9789004168282 9786613061102 9047433742 1283061104 9789047433743 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions. The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious convention, of the 'poor theatre' and total theatre, of the neutral actor and the actor - jester - storyteller are derived from the Far Eastern tradition, and to what extent they have been inspired by 20th century Euro-American reformers of theatre such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor. Although Gao' s plays and theatre form the major subject, this volume also pays ample attention to his painting and passion for music as sources of his dramaturgical strategies.


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Alternative Chinese opera in the age of globalization : performing zero.
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ISBN: 9780230245655 023024565X Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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"Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese "opera" in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California"--

The performing arts in contemporary China
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ISBN: 0710007787 Year: 1981 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

Staging the world : Chinese nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0822328674 0822328526 9786613063304 1283063301 0822383527 Year: 2002 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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An historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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