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  • Self-Translation and the Modern Chinese Literary World

    by Anthony Cordingley, Josh Stenberg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the dawn of modern Chinese literature and the foundation of the Republic of China (1912–1949). The crucial role translation played in this period remains ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Theatre History Studies 2024, Vol 43

    by Daniel E. Atkinson, Ashlyn King Baruti, David Bisaha, Julie Burrell, Jordana Cox, Jordan A. Ealey, Eric M. Glover, Adam Goldstein, Chao Guo, Amy B. Huang, Ariel Nereson, Zachary F. Price, Danielle Rosvally, Leticia L. Ridley, Bradford G Sadler, Richard Sautter, Michael Schweikardt, Margo Skornia, Dennis Sloan, Josh Stenberg, Paul Michael Thomson, Scott Venters, Isaiah Matthew Wooden ...
    Series series Theatre History Studies
    The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceWhere past and performance converge—scholarship that moves the stage forward.Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'

    by Josh Stenberg, Mr Simon Shepherd ...
    Series series Forms of Drama
    This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi ('pear garden theatre'), heir and current expression of one of China's oldest unbroken xiqu ('Chinese opera') traditions. It considers the genre's history prior to the 20th century, its signal successes before and after the Cultural Revolution, and its national prominence today. Beginning with an analysis of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance

    by Yip Siu Hing ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
    Kunqu, recognized by UNESCO in 2001 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). Today, the art form’s musical and performance traditions are being passed on by senior artists. This book consists of twelve explanatory narrations in English, selected and translated ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Madwoman on the Bridge (Storycuts)

    by Su Tong ...
    Translated by Josh Stenberg ...
    The madwoman was wearing a white velvet cheongsam. Standing on the bridge, she revelled in her own faded splendour. Normal people pay no attention to madwomen, but one woman from Shaoxing stayed on the bridge that afternoon to talk to this one; what was she coveting?Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge. ... Read more

    $2.03 USD

  • Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories

    by Su Tong ...
    Translated by Josh Stenberg ...
    Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

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  • Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

    Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics

    by Ya-chen Chen ...
    Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of women of Ancient China released from the constraints of patriarchal social order to revel in a ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

    Edited by Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Jia Zhangke

    Realism and Memory in Chinese Film

    by Cecília Mello ...
    Series series World Cinema
    Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best MonographDespite his films being subjected to censorship and denigration in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country's leading independent film director internationally. Seen as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, he has played a crucial role in documenting and reflecting upon China's era of intense transformationssince the 1990s ... Read more

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  • Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage

    by Shouhua Qi ...
    Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Western classics from the turn of the twentieth century to present-day China in the age of globalization. Supported by a wide range of in-depth research, this bookExamines the complex dynamics between texts, both dramatic and socio-historical; contexts, ... Read more

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    Art and the Body in Contemporary China

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