Chen (Chinese and comparative literature, Ohio State U.), who played a Korean girl on a mainland Chinese stage at age four, provides what is introduced as the first comprehensive study of 20th century
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning th
Reading the Right Text introduces six new plays from contemporary China, five of which are translated here into English for the first time. Chosen from a wide variety of well-received dramas of the pe
Chen (Chinese and comparative literature, Ohio State U.) presents this anthology as a companion volume to her critical study of huaju (modern Chinese spoken drama) from the 1960s to the early 1990s,
The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and ae
This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolut
This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolut
Chen (Chinese and comparative literature, Ohio State U.) explores how western ideas influenced the People's Republic of China's approach to a separate and unique Chinese approach to doing things, and
