...Claire Conceison Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China . By Li Ruru . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2004 . xi , 305 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S A S I A : C O M P A R A T I V E A N D...

...John B. Weinstein Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange . By Alexander C. Y. Huang . New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 . xvi , 350 pp. $84.50 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Alexander C. Y...

... Shakespeare's sonnets. The reasons are essentially the same. Little is known of these poets' lives, and their poems exemplify lyric and panegyric genres that were not intended to be autobiographical or idiosyncratic. Neither Hafiz nor Shakespeare were Romantics, and they did not write introspective or self...

... the frog is dead. Waugh was right. Most analyses of humor cannot be read for amusement. On the other hand, why should they be? If Shakespeare scholars are not expected to write in iambic pentameter, why should students of humor be expected to keep their readers in stitches? As the editor...

... of the language. I had begun speaking Urdu in 1942, and from about 1945 had acquired some competence in the language of prose literature. Nor was it because I was not moderately well read in the love poetry of various cultures and civilizations, from Sappho and Catullus to Shakespeare and Burns, not to speak...

...: The Maturing New Drama of Japan;" Peter Milward, "Shakespeare in Japanese Translation;" and Edward Seidensticker, "Strangely Shaped Novels: A Scattering of Examples." Dr. Ortolani has provided us with a badly needed English survey of the Japanese experimentation with modern Western dramatic form. His belief...

... of European thought. This assimilative and experimental process also emerges, in one form or another, as the theme of the contributions by Benito Ortolani, "Shingeki: The Maturing New Drama of Japan;" Peter Milward, "Shakespeare in Japanese Translation;" and Edward Seidensticker, "Strangely Shaped Novels...

... changed from the proletarian point of view; the works of Li Po, Shakespeare, and Beethoven were condemned until Russian visitors played Shakespeare and Beethoven. Finally the author Maria Yen managed to escape to Hong Kong. The Umbrella Garden presents an excellent and interesting description...

... more regimented. Students were persuaded to participate in Communist rallies, parades, forums, and other group activities. Individual freedom was reduced to a minimum. The content of old dramas, books, music, and films were changed from the proletarian point of view; the works of Li Po, Shakespeare...

... seven ages of man which Shakespeare so painfully and brilliantly condensed in As You Like It,2 for those ages are universals of the human race rather than the narrow classifications of historians. K'ang-hsi, who was born in 1654, passed through each of the seven ages before he died at sixty-eight. Let...

... with his notions of "universalism" and his pointless impositions of Aristotelian poetics at the close of an otherwise superb interview, making it obvious to one and all that it's all Greek to him. Anita Desai's own words on Shakespeare could easily be applied as a corrective to the problems of this book...

... interview, making it obvious to one and all that it's all Greek to him. Anita Desai's own words on Shakespeare could easily be applied as a corrective to the problems of this book. She masterfully speaks of Shakespeare as "something one imbibes. One does not consciously think of him as a model...

... Shakespeare in China. By LI RURU. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. xi, 305 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). This detailed and spirited account of various Shakespeare productions and adaptations performed in mainland China is impeccably researched and delightfully ...

... its author believes may prove to be the screen's Shakespeare, and attempts what may be impossible to analyze the working of an artist's inner eye. Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy flung wide a door in the 1950s, revolutionizing for Westerners the image of life in India, and replacing exoticism...

... four of those dramatists: Perseus the Deliv- or two of Shakespeare, with some awareness of erer; The Post Office; Kama: the Brahmin's CurseE;uropean literature in translation. Ironically, and Pundalik, respectively. There is a survey of this curriculum has been continued even after "Some Recent Indian...

... whom she interviewed in the summer of 2001. As a result, her predictions seem a bit forced and conjecture driven. Although I agree with the author s statement that Shakespeare s canonical position is unchallengeable, I disagree with her implication that for Chinese theater artists Old Man Sha has...

... and Aldous Huxley obliterates the very memory of Shakespeare from his Brave New World. But with all its doctrines of literary creation that presuppose the existence of Communist man, the Peking government, like the rest of the world, lives in an age highly obsessed with "culture," and culture implies history...

... literatures, Hsia refuses to over-rate the Chinese literary tradition; thus he gives us an essay on Shakespeare's great Chinese contemporary in which he tells us that T'ang Hsien-tsu was not Shakespeare's equal as a universal literary figure, yet which informs us better than any existing work in English about...

...Lienche Fang Hsueh-shu chi-k'an . (Academic Review Quarterly), edited and published by the China Cultural Publishing Foundation , Taipeh , 1952 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 BOOK REVIEWS 273 versity Press in 1951); Shakespeare's plays translated...

... is thoroughly at home in Shakespeare's struggle of a country to adjust its traditional England; as an Indian, he is equally at home system of obligations and responsibilities in his own past and can, in imagination, put based on family, kinship, neighborhood and himself in the place of each traveller and un...