Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage

List of contents

Prologue

1. First Contact: Early Chinese Encounters with Western Drama

2. Black Slave's Cry to Heaven, the Birth Cry of Modern Chinese Drama, and a Group of Post-’80s Amateurs in Search of a Director

3. Guess Who’s Coming: Brecht, Beckett, Miller, and the Revival of Modern Chinese Drama

4. Tragic Hero and Hero Tragedy: Reimagining Classic Greek Drama as Chinese Xiqu Today

5. Old Man Shakespeare, the All but Forgotten Shaw, and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde

6. An Old "Mentor and Friend" from Afar: Adapting Classic Russian Drama for the Chinese Stage

7. The Tragic, the Comic, the Absurd, and the "Grand Feast" of French Classics

Epilogue

About the author

Shouhua Qi is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Liberal Arts, Yangzhou University and Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Western Connecticut State University.

Summary

Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Western classics, from the turn of the twentieth century to present-day China in the age of globalisation.

Product details

• Authors: Shouhua Qi, Qi Shouhua
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367733827
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73382-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; China, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights