Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China

This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. It explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Introduction: Performing Postsocialist Times; 1. Postsocialism and Postsocialist Performance; 2. Performing Postsocialist Hauntologies; 3. Performing Postsocialist Realisms; 4. Performing Postsocialist Futurities; Conclusion: Performing Postsocialism, Transnationally; References.

Product details

• Authors: Rossella (Universitat Wien Ferrari, Ferrari Rossella
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009515948
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0951594-8
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, DRAMA / General, 21st Century, Theatre Studies, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Economic systems & structures, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Mixed economic systems