基本信息出版社：Columbia University Press
页码：368 页
出版日期：2009年05月
ISBN：0231148496
International Standard Book Number：0231148496
条形码：9780231148498
EAN：9780231148498
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介

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 the first book to concentrate on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture and their ambiguous relationship to the postcolonial question. Substantiated by case studies of major cultural events and texts from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times, Chinese Shakespeares theorizes competing visions of "China" and "Shakespeare" in the global cultural marketplace and challenges the logic of fidelity-based criticism and the myth of cultural exclusivity. In his critique of the locality and ideological investments of authenticity in nationalism, modernity, Marxism, and personal identities, Huang reveals the truly transformative power of Chinese Shakespeares.

作者简介

Alexander C. Y. Huang is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is the coeditor, with Charles Ross, of Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace, and his publications on Shakespeare performance and modern Chinese-language drama and literature have appeared in MLQ, Shakespeare Bulletin, Asian Theatre Journal, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, and Shakespeare Studies, among other publications.

专业书评

"Alexander Huang has tackled one of the most exciting areas in Chinese and comparative cultural studies. Seen through the prism of Chinese encounters with Shakespeare and Shakespearean theatre, his book covers a wide range of issues: the dynamics of transculturation, the technology of media and reproduction, and the politics of theater. Chinese Shakespeares is a fascinating study of how, throughout the crucial moments in modern history, the Chinese imagined, appropriated, and re-oriented Shakespeare." -- David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University, and author of The Monster That Is History

目录

List of 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 China
Epilogue
Select Chronology
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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