There Is Not One China: Chinese Theaters in East Asia

book review

Maciej Szatkowski

szatkowski@umk.pl
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6540-4140

Abstract

This article discusses Rossella Ferrari’s book Transnational Chinese Theatres: Inter­cultural Performance Networks in East Asia. This research monograph by a scholar of Chinese theaters focuses on characterizing transnational artist networks in East Asia. Investigating theater collaborations of artists from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Ferrari proposes a transnational and rhizomatic model for analyzing Sino­phone culture. The book makes use of multiple sources not referenced in previous research, unpublished materials, and interviews. Ferrari explicitly dissociates herself from the orientalization of Eastern theaters; as her main method in researching them, she chooses Asia itself, following the Taiwanese cultural sociologist Chen Kuan-hsing (Asia as method) and listening carefully to the voice of Chinese theaters.


Keywords:

Chinese theater, transnationality, China, Hong Kong, Asia as method

Chen Kuan-hsing. Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391692   Google Scholar

Ferrari, Rossella. Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. London: Seagull Books, 2012.
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Ferrari, Rossella. Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3- 030-37273-6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6   Google Scholar


Published
2023-09-01

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Szatkowski, M. (2023) “There Is Not One China: Chinese Theaters in East Asia”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 72(3), pp. 87–95. doi: 10.36744/pt.1472.

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Maciej Szatkowski 
szatkowski@umk.pl
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6540-4140

Maciej Szatkowski - sinologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and director of the Center for Chinese Language and Culture at this university. His research focuses on contemporary Chinese culture and literature, particularly Chinese counterculture of the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as drama translation.



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