Overview
- Combines textual, performance, and discourse analysis to cover a broad spectrum of productions
- Includes analysis of productions and practitioners from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore to foreground historical and contemporary intersections between these scenes
- Draws attention to transnational networks and modalities of intercultural collaboration
Part of the book series: Transnational Theatre Histories (TTH)
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This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia makes an invaluable contribution … to the decolonization of the academic enterprise. … A must-read for scholars and graduate students across disciplines, Transnational Chinese Theatres will go far to fill gaps in the field’s knowledge of contemporary Chinese theatre and modern East Asian history, while its sophisticated theoretical model will open new paths for the study of the marginalized and the minor in theatre and performance studies.” (Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Theatre Journal, Vol. 72 (3), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Chinese Theatres
Book Subtitle: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Authors: Rossella Ferrari
Series Title: Transnational Theatre Histories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37272-9Published: 18 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37275-0Published: 18 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37273-6Published: 17 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5893
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 306
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: National/Regional Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Theatre History, Performing Arts