For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese...
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For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese ""Shakespeare,"" and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding a rich trove of transnational imagery and paradoxical citations in popular and political culture. Chinese Shakespeares is th
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Texts and Translation; Prologue; PART I: Theorizing Global Localities; 1. Owning Chinese Shakespeares; PART II: The Fiction of Moral Space; 2. Shakespeare in Absentia:The Genealogy of an Obsession; 3. Rescripting Moral Criticism: Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, and Lao She; PART III: Locality at Work; 4. Silent Film and Early Theater: Performing Womanhood and Cosmopolitanism; 5. Site- Specific Readings: Confucian Temple, Labor Camp,and Soviet-Chinese Theater; PART IV: Postmodern Shakespearean Orients; 6. Why Does Everyone Need Chinese Opera?
7. Disowning Shakespeare and ChinaEpilogue; Select Chronology; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
