Transnational Chinese Theatres
Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Authors: Ferrari, Rossella
Free Preview- Combines textual, performance, and discourse analysis to cover a broad spectrum of productionsIncludes analysis of productions and practitioners from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore to foreground historical and contemporary intersections between these scenesDraws attention to transnational networks and modalities of intercultural collaboration
Buy this book
- About this book
-
This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.
- About the authors
-
Rossella Ferrari is Reader in Chinese and Theatre Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. She is the author of Pop Goes the Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2012), the first English-language monograph to examine the development of Chinese avant-garde theatre since the Cultural Revolution, and Da Madre Coraggio e i suoi figli a Jiang Qing e i suoi mariti: Percorsi brechtiani in Cina (Cafoscarina, 2004), on the reception of Bertolt Brecht in China.
- Reviews
-
“Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia makes an invaluable contribution … to the decolonization of the academic enterprise. … A must-read for scholars and graduate students across disciplines, Transnational Chinese Theatres will go far to fill gaps in the field’s knowledge of contemporary Chinese theatre and modern East Asian history, while its sophisticated theoretical model will open new paths for the study of the marginalized and the minor in theatre and performance studies.” (Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Theatre Journal, Vol. 72 (3), 2020)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
-
Introduction: A Tale of Multiple Cities—Setting the Stage for Transnational Chinese Theatres
Pages 1-31
-
Rhizomes, Radicants, and Journeys: Transnational Chinese Theatres as Networks of Intercultural Collaboration
Pages 33-69
-
Hong Kong Transfers: Transmedial Travels in the Theatre of Relations
Pages 71-137
-
Performing the 38th Parallel Across the Taiwan Strait: Territorial Divides and Theatrical Dialogues in East Asia
Pages 139-206
-
Trans-Asian Spectropoetics: Conjuring War and Violence on the Haunted Stage of History
Pages 207-279
-
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Book Title
- Transnational Chinese Theatres
- Book Subtitle
- Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
- Authors
-
- Rossella Ferrari
- Series Title
- Transnational Theatre Histories
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-37273-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-37272-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 306
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
- Topics
