Chinese Shakespeares - Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange

Informationen zum Autor Alexander C. Y. Huang is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University! University Park. He is the coeditor! with Charles Ross! of Shakespeare in Hollywood! Asia! and Cyberspace! and his publications on Shakespeare performance and modern Chinese-language drama and literature have appeared in MLQ! Shakespeare Bulletin! Asian Theatre Journal! The Shakespearean International Yearbook! and Shakespeare Studies! among other publications. Klappentext This work concentrates on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture in relation to the postcolonial question. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Texts and TranslationProloguePart I Theorizing Global Localities 1. Owning Chinese ShakespearesPart II The Fiction of Moral Space 2. Shakespeare in Absentia: The Genealogy of an Obsession3. Rescripting Moral Criticism: Charles and Mary Lamb! Lin Shu! and Lao ShePart III Locality at Work 4. Silent Film and Early Theater: Performing Womanhood and Cosmopolitanism5. Site-Specific Readings: Confucian Temple! Labor Camp! and Soviet-Chinese TheaterPart IV Postmodern Shakespearean Orients 6. Why Does Everyone Need Chinese Opera?7. Disowning Shakespeare and ChinaEpilogueSelect ChronologyNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Alexa Huang, Alexander C. Y. Huang, Professor Alexa Huang, Professor Alexander C. Y. Huang
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9780231148481
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14848-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Global Chinese Culture; Global Chinese Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Europe, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Films, cinema, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare; theater; Asian history