Chinese Adaptations of Brecht

Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9783030377786
ISBN-13 : 3030377784
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Book Synopsis Chinese Adaptations of Brecht by : Wei Zhang

Download or read book Chinese Adaptations of Brecht written by Wei Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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