There Is Not One China: Chinese Theaters in East Asia
Maciej Szatkowski
szatkowski@umk.plNicolaus 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 The book makes use of multiple sources not referenced in previous research, unpublished materials, and interviews.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 methodReferences
Chen Kuan-hsing. Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391692
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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
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Maciej Szatkowskiszatkowski@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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