Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia - Hardcover

by Rossella Ferrari (Author)

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: A Tale of Multiple Cities: Setting the Stage for Transnational Chinese Theatres.- 2. Chapter 2: Rhizomes, Radicants, and Journeys: Transnational Chinese Theatres as Networks of Intercultural Collaboration.- 3. Chapter 3: Hong Kong Transfers: Transmedial Travels in the Theatre of Relations.- 4. Chapter 4: Performing the 38th Parallel across the Taiwan Strait: Territorial Divides and Theatrical Dialogues in East Asia.- 5. Chapter 5: Trans-Asian Spectropoetics: Conjuring War and Violence on the Haunted Stage of History.- 6. Chapter 6: Epilogue: Out of Asia: Transnational Chinese Theatres' Global Itineraries.

Author Biography

Rossella Ferrari is Reader in Chinese and Theatre Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. She is the author of Pop Goes the Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2012), the first English-language monograph to examine the development of Chinese avant-garde theatre since the Cultural Revolution, and Da Madre Coraggio e i suoi figli a Jiang Qing e i suoi mariti: Percorsi brechtiani in Cina (Cafoscarina, 2004), on the reception of Bertolt Brecht in China.