Overview
- Considers the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture during the last four decades
- Examines how Brecht’s plays have been adapted and appropriated by Chinese theatre artists
- Contributes to transcultural studies in theatre, literature, and aesthetics
Part of the book series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World (CLCW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Bertolt Brecht
- Chinese theatre
- adaptation
- xiqu
- Verfremdungseffekt
- Mao Zedong
- Cultural Revolution
- Turandot or the Whitewashers’ Congress
- Wei Minglun
- The Chinese Princess Dulanduo
- Life of Galileo
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- The Threepenny Opera
- Good Woman/Bad Woman
- The Good Person of Jiangnan
- The Good Person of Szechwan
- Chen Yong
- German literature
- translation studies
About this book
This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wei Zhang is Professor at Hangzhou Normal University, China. She holds a PhD in Comparative Theatre from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (2018) and a PhD in Performance Studies from Shanghai Theatre Academy (2007). Her research has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, Classical Receptions Journal, The Brecht Yearbook, and many other journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
Book Subtitle: Appropriation and Intertextuality
Authors: Wei Zhang
Series Title: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37778-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37777-9Published: 09 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37780-9Published: 09 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37778-6Published: 08 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-7254
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7262
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 200
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, Asian Literature, German Literature, Translation Studies, Global/International Theatre and Performance, Asian Culture