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  • Global Theatre Anthologies

    Classical and Modern Plays from China

    Edited by R. N. Sandberg, Xiaomei Chen, Ayling Wang ...
    Series series Global Theatre Anthologies
    The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures.The third volume in the Global Theatre Anthologies series presents six of the most iconic classical and modern plays from China. By exploring the older works alongside important pieces from across the modern period, students gain insight to the theatrical and cultural values ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Literary Societies Of Republican China

    by Xiaomei Chen, Susan Daruvala, Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Charles A. Laughlin, Mark Miller, Xiaobing Tang, Lawrence Wang-chi Wong, Shengqing Wu, Xueqing Xu ...
    Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the period is seen ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Performing the Socialist State

    Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Performing the Socialist State offers an innovative account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in twentieth-century Chinese theater. Instead of seeing the Republican, high socialist, and postsocialist periods as radically distinct, it identifies key continuities in theatrical practices and shared aspirations for the social role and artistic achievements of performance across ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Performing the Socialist State

    Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Performing the Socialist State offers an innovative account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in twentieth-century Chinese theater. Instead of seeing the Republican, high socialist, and postsocialist periods as radically distinct, it identifies key continuities in theatrical practices and shared aspirations for the social role and artistic achievements of performance across ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform

    Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era

    Edited by Xiaomei Chen, Siyuan Liu, Tarryn Li-Min Chun ...
    The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied however is how cultural events, and theater reforms in particular, contributed to the dynamic landscape of contemporary Chinese society. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform fills this gap by investigating the theories and practice ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

    abridged edition

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Staging Chinese Revolution

    Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, demonstrating how, in a socialist state with "capitalist ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

    Edited by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Primarily comprising works from the People's Republic of China, though including representative plays from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this ... Read more

    $130.49 USD

  • Occidentalism

    A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

  • China and New Left Visions

    Political and Cultural Interventions

    by Xiaomei Chen, Daniel F. Vukovich, Xueping Zhong, Megan Ferry, Lisa Rofel, Aili Mu, Haomin Gong, Hai Ren, Arif Dirlik ...
    Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    by Anonymous ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Fox Wife

    A Novel

    by Yangsze Choo ...
    Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming ... Read more

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