Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture 0231197764, 9780231197762

Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture 9780231552332

Xiaomei Chen offers a new account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in twentieth-century Chinese the

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Performing Opposition : Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience 9780313057625, 9780275980566

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Chinese Village, Socialist State 0300054289, 9780300054286

The detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved dur

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Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self

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Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State 9780292794047

Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or televisi

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Origins of the Modern Chinese State 9781503619661

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past

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A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France 9780812293869

In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotia

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Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda 9780231541619

Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, comm

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Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater 9780271080789

From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in hu

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Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater 9780824844905

A reclusive painter living in exile in Paris, Gao Xingjian found himself instantly famous when he became the first Chine

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