Operatic China - Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

Zusatztext "Comparatively little has been written on Chinese opera! and this is perhaps the first book to look at how that tradition functions in immigrant populations in other geographic areas...Recommended." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor DAPHNE P. LEI is Assistant Professor of Drama, University of California-Irvine, USA, having received her BA from Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan (English), MA from California State University, Los Angeles (Theatre Arts), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities from Stanford University (Drama) and her PhD from Tufts. Her interests and expertise include Asian Theatre, Asian American Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Chinese Theatre and Film, Post-Colonial and Diasporic Theatre, and Gender and Performance. She has taught at the Chinese Culture University (Taiwan), Tufts, and Stanford University, and has directed plays with Asian American casts at Harvard and Stanford, and conducted playwriting workshops for Asian American students at Stanford. She has published articles on the subjects of pre-modern Chinese theatre, gender and ethnicity, Chinese immigrant theatre, and Asian American playwrights. Klappentext In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies. Zusammenfassung In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones'! where two or more cultures! ethnicities! and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies! Asian and Asian American studies! and transnational and diasporic studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Lotus and Mud Chinese Theatre and the Eternal Frontier in Nineteenth-Century California Local, National and International Performance of Barbarians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rebellion, Revolution and Theatricality in Late-Qing China San Francisco Chinatown, Cantonese Opera and the New Millennium The Global Consensus in Chinese Opera on Stage and Screen Epilogue...

Product details

• Authors: D Lei, D. Lei, Daphne P. Lei
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2006
• EAN: 9781403973276
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7327-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Theater, Asien, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Darstellende Künste, B, Asiatische Geschichte, Cultural Studies, Social History, The arts: general issues, Arts, Social & cultural history, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theater—History, Theatre History, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies, Asia—History, Kunst: allgemeine Themen