Shakespeare In China

Author : Xiaoyang Zhang
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874135362

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Shakespeare in China by Xiaoyang Zhang Pdf

The value of the book is not limited to the scope of Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. With the combination of the literary criticism and sociological approach, it describes and investigates a variety of social and psychological phenomena in the process of cultural exchange between the West and the East. The book also provides a brief view of the social, political, and historical changes in modern China for Western readers.

Author : Murray J. Levith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474242806

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Shakespeare in China by Murray J. Levith Pdf

Shakespeare in China provides English language readers with a comprehensive sense of China's past and on-going encounter with Shakespeare. It offers a detailed history of twentieth-century Sino-Shakespeare from the beginnings to 1949, followed by more recent accounts of the playwright in the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The study pays particular attention to translation, criticism and theatrical productions and highlights Shakespeare's fate during the turbulent political times of modern China. Chapters on 'Shakespeare and Confucius' and 'The Paradox of Shakespeare in the New China' consider the playwright in the context of 'old' and 'new' Chinese ideologies. Bringing together hard to find materials in both English and Chinese, it builds upon and extends past research on its subject.

Author : Alexa Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231519922

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Chinese Shakespeares by Alexa Huang Pdf

For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding a rich trove of transnational imagery and paradoxical citations in popular and political culture. Chinese Shakespeares is the first book to concentrate on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture and their ambiguous relationship to the postcolonial question. Substantiated by case studies of major cultural events and texts from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times, Chinese Shakespeares theorizes competing visions of "China" and "Shakespeare" in the global cultural marketplace and challenges the logic of fidelity-based criticism and the myth of cultural exclusivity. In her critique of the locality and ideological investments of authenticity in nationalism, modernity, Marxism, and personal identities, Huang reveals the truly transformative power of Chinese Shakespeares.

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429663291

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Shakespeare and Asia by Jonathan Locke Hart Pdf

Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays and his relations with other authors like Marlowe and Dickens through Shakespeare and history and ecology to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Japan, Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China. The adaptations of Kozintsev and Kurosawa; Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; different Shakespearean dramas and how they are interpreted, adapted and represented for the local Pakistani audience; the Peking-opera adaptation of Hamlet ; Féng Xiǎogāng’s The Banquet as an adaptation of Hamlet; the ideology of the film, Shakespeare Wallah. Asian adaptations of Hamlet will be at the heart of this volume. Hamlet is also analyzed in light of Oedipus and the Sphinx. Shakespeare is also considered as a historicist and in terms of what influence he has on Chinese writers and historical television. Lear is Here and Cleopatra and Her Fools, two adapted Shakespearean plays on the contemporary Taiwanese stage, are also discussed. This collection also examines in Shakespeare the patriarchal prerogative and notion of violence; carnival and space in the comedies; the exotic and strange; and ecology. The book is rich, ranging and innovative and will contribute to Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare and media and film, Shakespeare and Asia and global Shakespeare.

Author : Ruru Li
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789622096288

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Shashibiya by Ruru Li Pdf

Shashibiya is an intriguing discussion of the levels of 'filtering' that any Shakespeare performance in China undergoes, and a close examination of how these filters reflect the continually-changing political, social and cultural practices. The study traces the history of Shakespeare performance in China over the past hundred years, focussing in detail on eleven productions in mainstream, operatic and experimental forms in the post-Mao era. Li Ruru's intimate knowledge of her subject makes this the most up-to-date research available on staging Shakespeare in China.

Author : Guan Hanquing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350042797

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Snow In Midsummer by Guan Hanquing Pdf

Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak? As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will strike. Three years later, a businesswoman visits the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the curse destroys every living thing. A contemporary re-imagining by acclaimed playwright Frances-Ya Chu Cowhig of one of the most famous classical Chinese dramas, which breathes new life into this ancient story, haunted by centuries of retelling. The world premiere of Snow in Midsummer on 23 February 2017 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, launched the RSC's Chinese Translations Project, a cultural exchange bringing Chinese classics to a contemporary Western audience.

Author : Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231148498

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Chinese Shakespeares by Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang Pdf

This work concentrates on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture in relation to the postcolonial question.

Author : Tian Yuan Tan,Paul Edmondson,Shih-pe Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472583437

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1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China by Tian Yuan Tan,Paul Edmondson,Shih-pe Wang Pdf

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan gathered 20 scholars together to reflect on the theatrical practice of four hundred years ago and to ask: what does such an exploration mean culturally for us today? This ground-breaking study offers fresh insights into the respective theatrical worlds of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu and asks how the brave new theatres of 1616 may have a vital role to play in the intercultural dialogue of our own time.

Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107003316

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Shakespeare and World Cinema by Mark Thornton Burnett Pdf

This book explores the significance of Shakespeare in contemporary world cinema for the first time. Mark Thornton Burnett draws on a wealth of examples from Africa, the Arctic, Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Tibet, Venezuela, Yemen and elsewhere.

Author : Alexa Alice Joubin
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198703563

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Shakespeare and East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin Pdf

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK. These adaptations break new ground in sound and spectacle; they serve as a vehicle for artistic and political remediation or, in some cases, the critique of the myth of reparative interpretations of literature; they provide a forum where diasporic artists and audiences can grapple with contemporary issues; and, through international circulation, they are reshaping debates about the relationship between East Asia and Europe. Bringing film and theatre studies together, this book sheds new light on the two major genres in a comparative context and reveals deep structural and narratological connections among Asian and Anglophone performances. These adaptations are products of metacinematic and metatheatrical operations, contestations among genres for primacy, or experimentations with features of both film and theatre.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782833475

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Great State by Timothy Brook Pdf

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.

Author : Thomas Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:590683542

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The History of England: from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Year A.D. 1852 by Thomas Milner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198117353

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oded Shenkar
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780132716147

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The Chinese Century by Oded Shenkar Pdf

By 2015, China may well have the world's largest economy. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bureaucracy. Shenkar shows why China's quest for global success differs radically from predecessors such as Japan, India, and Mexico... why it represents a fundamental restructuring of the global business system... and why it will transform the roles of participants in the global economy. He previews tomorrow's new competitive ground rules, terms of employment, and consumption patterns, and shows how Chinese ascendancy is redrawing political, economic, and social battle lines. Learn why the U.S. is most vulnerable to China's ascent... how China's disregard for intellectual property creates sustainable competitive advantage... how China's growth impacts global businesses and individual purchasing decisions. Above all, Shenkar shows what you must do to survive and prosper in "The Chinese Century."

Author : Robert André LaFleur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576077368

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China by Robert André LaFleur Pdf

Complete ready reference covering Chinese history, economics, politics, culture, and prevalent social problems ... a "must-have" addition to any global studies collection. Throughout its imperial golden ages, China was the world's most developed nation, home to advanced technologies, a robust economy, and thriving cities. Its thousands of years of cultural and artistic achievements combined with its vastness and ethnic complexity have made China both fascinating and forbidding for those encountering it for the first time. This new volume offers readers a concise, single-stop introduction to Chinese history, culture, economics, politics, and social issues. As they trace China's history from the creation stories of ancient Chinese myths to the Communist upheaval of the 20th century, readers will learn how the country has changed—and not changed—from early to modern times, and what life throughout China is like today.