Xiaomei Chen

Gebundenes Buch

Performing the Socialist State

Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture

Beschreibung

Xiaomei Chen offers a new 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, she identifies key continuities in theatrical practices and shared aspirations for the social role of performance.

Autor

Xiaomei Chen is Distinguished Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film and the Afterlives of Propaganda (Columbia, 2016); Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China (2002); and Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (second and expanded edition, 2002), as well as editor of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (Columbia, 2010; abridged edition, 2014), among other publications. Chen is also coeditor of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era (2021), which received the Excellence in Editing Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 238mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780231197762
• ISBN-10: 0231197764
• Artikelnr.: 66221405