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Informationen zum Autor Xiaomei Chen is associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China (2002) and editor of Reading the Right Texts: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama with a Critical Introduction (2003). Klappentext This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive study of Occidentalism in post-Mao China includes a new preface, foreword, and chapter on Chinese diaspora writings in the Chinese language. Presenting an original model of comparative literary and cultural studies, Xiaomei Chen goes beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of crosscultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism. Instead, she argues that the appropriation of Western discourse-what she calls 'Occidentalism'-can actually have a politically and ideologically liberating effect on contemporary non-Western culture. Zusammenfassung An account of the favourable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China since 1978. This revised and expanded edition of Occidentalism in post-Mao China includes a new preface! foreword! and chapter on Chinese diaspora writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Occidentalism as a Counter-Discourse: The He shang Controversy Chapter 4 Occidentalist Theater: Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht as Counter Others Chapter 5 "Misunderstanding" Western Modernism: The Menglong Movement Chapter 6 A Wildman between the Orient and the Occident: Retro-Influence in Comparative Literary Studies Chapter 7 Wilder, Mei Lanfang, and Huang Zoulin: A "Suggestive Theater" Revisited Chapter 8 Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Chinese Drama: On the Problematics of Occidentalism in Cross-Cultural/Gender Perspectives Chapter 9 China Writes Back: Reading Stories of the Chinese Diaspora Chapter 10 Glossary...
