Uncrossing The Borders
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Uncrossing The Borders
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Author : Daphne Lei
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Uncrossing The Borders written by Daphne Lei and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Over many centuries, women on the Chinese stage committed suicide in beautiful and pathetic ways just before crossing the border for an interracial marriage. Uncrossing the Borders asks why this theatrical trope has remained so powerful and attractive. The book analyzes how national, cultural, and ethnic borders are inevitably gendered and incite violence against women in the name of the nation. The book surveys two millennia of historical, literary, dramatic texts, and sociopolitical references to reveal that this type of drama was especially popular when China was under foreign rule, such as in the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu) dynasties, and when Chinese male literati felt desperate about their economic and political future, due to the dysfunctional imperial examination system. Daphne P. Lei covers border-crossing Chinese drama in major theatrical genres such as zaju and chuanqi, regional drama such as jingju (Beijing opera) and yueju (Cantonese opera), and modernized operatic and musical forms of such stories today.
The Courtesan S Memory Voice And Late Ming Drama
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Author : Peng Xu
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2025
The Courtesan S Memory Voice And Late Ming Drama written by Peng Xu and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with Drama categories.
Tracing the forgotten impact of courtesans in Chinese theater
The Methuen Drama Handbook Of Interculturalism And Performance
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Author : Daphne Lei
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-02
The Methuen Drama Handbook Of Interculturalism And Performance written by Daphne Lei and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-02 with Performing Arts categories.
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre and performance that continue to prioritise case studies emerging primarily from the West and executed by elite artists. By building on a growing field of scholarship on intercultural theatre and performance that examines minoritarian and grassroots work, the volume offers an alternative and multi-vocal view of what interculturalism might offer as a theoretical keyword to the future of theatre and performance studies, while also contributing an energized reassessment of the vociferous debates that have long accompanied its critical and practical usage in a performance context. By exploring anew what happens when interculturalism and performance intersect as embodied practice, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance offers new perspectives on a seminal theoretical concept still as useful as it is controversial. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in intercultural theatre and performance, and performance studies.
Asian City Crossings
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Author : Rossella Ferrari
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-17
Asian City Crossings written by Rossella Ferrari and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-17 with Art categories.
Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond. The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It situates inter-Asian relationality and inter-city referencing as centrally significant dynamics in the exploration of the material and ideological conditions of contemporary performance and performance exchange in Asia. This study captures creative dialogue that travels city-based pathways along the Hong Kong-Singapore route, as well as between Hong Kong and Singapore and other cities, through scholarly analyses and practitioner reflections drawn from the fields of theatre, performance, and music. This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology, and human geography with reflective accounts by Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to highlight the diversity, vibrancy, and complexity of creative projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and nationhood through strategies of collaborative conviviality and transnational mobility across multi-sited networks of cities in Asia. In doing so, this volume fills a considerable gap in global scholarly discourse on performance and the city and on the production and circulation of the performing arts in Asia.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Theatre And Migration
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Author : Yana Meerzon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-01
The Palgrave Handbook Of Theatre And Migration written by Yana Meerzon and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration.
Denationalizing Identities
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Author : Wah Guan Lim
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Denationalizing Identities written by Wah Guan Lim and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. At the height of the Cold War, the "Bamboo Curtain" divided the "two Chinas" across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Hong Kong prepared for its handover to the People's Republic of China and Singapore rethought Chinese education. As geopolitical tensions imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region, these four dramatists wove together local, foreign, and Chinese elements in their art, challenging mainland China's narrative of an inevitable communist outcome. By performing cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own states, they debunked notions of a unified Chineseness. Denationalizing Identities highlights the key role theater and performance played in circulating people and ideas across the Chinese-speaking world, well before cross-strait relations began to thaw.
Lutes And Marginality In Pre Modern China
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Author : Ingrid Maren Furniss
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-23
Lutes And Marginality In Pre Modern China written by Ingrid Maren Furniss and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Art categories.
Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into China, and how these instruments became linked to various forms of social, cultural, ethnic, and religious marginality within and at China’s borders. The book argues that the lute, a musical instrument that likely originated in the Near East or Central Asia, became a highly charged object replete with associations of ethnic and political identity, social status, and gender in China across the third to seventeenth centuries, and as such, offers a crucial vehicle for understanding interactions between the Chinese center and periphery. Using a richly interdisciplinary perspective that brings together music history, performance studies, archaeology, and art history, the author draws together the visual evidence for the history of Chinese lutes and analyzes the political and cultural dimensions of their depictions in art. In exploring the lute’s reception across time and space, this book illuminates the shifting relationships between China and cultures along its frontier, as well as the dynamics of gender and social status within China’s center. Comprehensive in scope, Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China offers new insights for scholars of pre-modern China, art history, archaeology, music history, ethnomusicology, and Silk Road and frontier studies.
Migrants And Refugees At Uk Borders
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Author : Yasmin Ibrahim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-27
Migrants And Refugees At Uk Borders written by Yasmin Ibrahim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-27 with Social Science categories.
This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years. The European ‘migrant crisis’ from 2015 onwards has been characterised by an extremely intimidating atmosphere which denies the basic humanity of refugees and migrants. Deep rooted in Western Enlightenment trajectory, this racially-driven politics is linked to the Western theories of scientific superiority which went on to become the basis of eugenics and coloniality as part of modernity. Focusing on the ‘migrant crisis’, Brexit, and the impacts of the global pandemic, this book unpicks the waves of crises and neuroses about the ‘Other’ in Europe and the UK. The chapters analyse the rhetoric of camps, refrigerated death lorries, the notion of channel crossings and ‘accidental’ drownings, the formation of relationship with border architecture such as the razor wire, and corporeal resistance in detention centres through hunger strike. In examining such specific sites of rhetorical articulation, policy formation, social imagination, and its incumbent visuality, the chapters deconstruct the intersection of dominant ideologies, power, knowledge paradigms (including the media) as part of the public sphere and their combined re-mediation of the dispossessed humans in the shores and borders of Europe. This important interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies.
Chinese Daigou An Ethnography Of Brokerage Practices And Mobility Politics In Globalized China
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Author : Zhuoxiao Xie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-12-02
Chinese Daigou An Ethnography Of Brokerage Practices And Mobility Politics In Globalized China written by Zhuoxiao Xie and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-02 with Social Science categories.
This book is an ethnography of Chinese daigou (cross-border shopping on the behalf of mainland Chinese customers) and their mobilities practices. Daigou practitioners, predominantly women, engage in selling, purchasing, and delivering goods between mainland China and overseas regions. With the rise of the platform economy and mobile technologies, daigou has evolved into a niche market, contributing to the “her economy” and consumerism in China. This ethnography provides a comprehensive exploration of the gendered-technological practices of mobile communication and mobility politics between mainland China and Hong Kong, depicting micro-entrepreneurship, place-making, and border-crossing activities in three intersecting scenes. Theoretically, this book synthesizes the literature on mobilities, science and technological studies, service labor, and mobile communication. It offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the (mobile) communication that both produces and is produced by mobilities of people, data, objects, and technologies. The study expands theories of mobility politics by developing a heuristic model of brokerage, theorizing the communication processes through which daigou, as brokers, influence, manage, or facilitate multiple forms and meanings of mobilities in globalized China. From a feminist science and technology perspective, the book examines how daigou scenarios embed gender-specific concepts into technological practices, reinforcing entrenched unequal gender relations in service labor and family contexts. It interrogates the mechanisms of unequal mobilities associated with the logic of brokerage, which strengthens the differentiation of gender, technology, and labor among different parties. These brokerage processes multiply the discrepancies in mobilities, exacerbating gaps in structural relationships and becoming significant mechanisms of inequality.
M Other Perspectives
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Author : Lynn Deboeck
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-01
M Other Perspectives written by Lynn Deboeck and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos, and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And what do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.