Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
Appropriation and Intertextuality
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Beschreibung
This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.
This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.
Considers the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture during the last four decades Examines how Brecht’s plays have been adapted and appropriated by Chinese theatre artists Contributes to transcultural studies in theatre, literature, and aesthetics
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Wei Zhang
Themen in »Chinese Adaptations of Brecht«
Bertolt Brecht Chinese theatre adaptation xiqu Verfremdungseffekt Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution Turandot or the Whitewashers’ Congress Wei Minglun The Chinese Princess Dulanduo Life of Galileo The Caucasian Chalk Circle The Threepenny Opera Good Woman/Bad Woman The Good Person of Jiangnan