Pop Goes the Avant-Garde Experimental Theater in Contemporary China

Name: Pop Goes the Avant-Garde Experimental Theater in Contemporary China
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ISBN: 9780857420459

ISBN-10: 0857420453

ISBN-13: 9780857420459

Edition: 2011

Authors: Rossella Ferrari

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Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary Chinais the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives in the fields of comparative literature, theater, performance, and culture studies, the book explores key artistic movements and phenomena that have emerged in China’s major cultural centers in the last several decades. It surveys the work of China’s most influential dramatists, directors and performance groups, with a special focus on Beijing-based playwright, director and filmmaker Meng Jinghui—the formerenfant terribleof Beijing…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 5/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 365
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Prologue


The Avant-Garde in the Twenty-First Century: The Return of the Living Dead?



An Avant-Garde Trilogy: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China



Introduction: The Avant-Garde in China: Contexts, Concepts, Chronologies



Behind the Red Curtain: Experimental Theatre in China after Mao



Performing Dissent and Marginality: The 1990s



Avant-Garde Arriï¿½re-Garde, or Pop Avant-Garde?: Experimental Theatre into the New Millennium



Aesthetics of Delight: The Theatre of Meng Jinghui



An Absurd Journey to the West: European Theatre in Post-Tiananmen China



Uneasy Homecomings: Parody, Deconstruction and the Subversive Rewriting of Tradition



Intercultural Hybrids, Pop Strategies and 'Meng-Style Delight': Toward a New Concept of the Avant-Garde


Epilogue


From Pop- to Trans-Chinese Avant-Garde(s)?


Bibliography


Appendix


Index