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Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 - 2000 is a ground-breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. It considers the shaping power of realism and naturalism, the influence of Western culture, the relationship between theatrical modernisation and social modernisation, and how theatre operates in contemporary Asian society. Organised by period, nation and region, each chapter provides:a historical overview of the culture;an outline of theatre history;a survey of significant playwrights, actors, directors, companies, plays and productions.With contributions from an international team of scholars, this authoritative introduction will uniquely equip students and scholars with a broad understanding of the modern theatre histories of Asia.>
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Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is professor of theatre arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, the author and editor of ten books including The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films, and a contributor to numerous volumes on sci-fi, pop culture and religion, including essays on Godzilla, Star Wars, and Battlestar Galactica. His areas of expertise include Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. He is co-editor with Patrick Lonergan of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series.Siyuan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and is currently the President of the Association for Asian Performance. He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century Chinese and Japanese theatre as well as Asian Canadian theatre in academic journals such as Asian Theatre Journal, Theatre Journal, TDR, and Text & Presentation and several book anthologies.Erin B. Mee is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of English, Drama, at New York University, USA. She is author of The Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage (2008), co-editor with Helene Foley of Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (2011) and editor of DramaContemporary: India, (2001).
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This monograph is a refreshing account of modern Asian theatre, attempting to deconstruct these rigid presumptions and to show an altogether different picture of theatre development in Asia in the past century ... the strength of the book lies in its unique approach to the subject. Szabolcs Musca New Theatre Quarterly
