Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

Informationen zum Autor Xiaomei Chen (Indiana PhD) is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film and the Afterlives of Propaganda (CUP, 2016); Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (Oxford, 1995; second and expanded edition, 2002), Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China (Hawai'i, 2002); and editor of Reading the Right Text (Hawai'i, 2003) and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (CUP, 2010; abridged edition 2014). Zusammenfassung This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen’s well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama.

Product details

• Authors: X Chen, Xiaomei Chen, Xiaomei (EDT) Chen, Chen Xiaomei
• Assisted by: Xiaomei Chen (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2010
• EAN: 9780231145701
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14570-1
• No. of pages: 1120
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; DRAMA / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Chinese, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Plays, Playscripts