...Ping Liu Duke University Press 2006 Translated by Krista Van Fleit Hang The Left-Wing Drama Movement in China and Its Relationship to Japan Ping Liu The View of 1930s Left-Wing Literature in the Field of Chinese Literature Studies After the end...

... excitement and nurture a culture of innovation necessary for the creative economy of renaissance Singapore, a global city for the arts. In the transition to this new climate, TNS and another professional theater company, Drama Box, have attempted to negotiate new forum spaces for critical thinking against...

... symptoms of a crucial predicament in Indian cinema's bid for alternative expressions in the realm of popular culture and spectatorial customs. Analyses of select films such as Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), Pankh and Gandu (both 2010) draw attention to a certain tendency in contemporary narrative drama...

..., this essay examines the significance of China’s engagement in the heart of Africa. A close reading of the spoken-word drama War Drums on the Equator (1965) reveals the importance of mobilizing “subjugated knowledge” in asymmetrical conflict. Chinese Uhuru: Maoism and the Congo Crisis Alexander C. Cook...

... of an intricate drama being played out among the state, mass media, and listeners, who are after all interested in trying to translate what is real and true. Doing so opens up possibilities for situating documentaries in line with work that produces new, creative meanings rather than work that merely reproduces...

... that was a synthesis and amalgamation of dramaturgical and aesthetic elements of the traditional folk dramas such as mask dance (t’alch’um) and puppet drama.2 After emerging in the 1970s as a social protest and a new form of drama, madang-g˘uk by the 1980s had...

... ancient drama . . . and you have chosen me for this distinction [the bestowal of an honorary doctorate], which is intended as an expression of your friendship for my people.’ Attaching such earnest purpose to a Peking opera tour...

... the popularity of Hong Kong media before 2000 toward media from the PRC in the present. For example, the broadcasting of TVB dramas on national television once made Hong Kong an ideal reference point for being (overseas) Chinese and produced a generation of Cantonese speakers, despite many Malaysian viewers...

... by the Kong Lok Sia . ———. 2001 . Qigai Wangzi: Chuantong xiju juanlu—Gezaixi juan—Gong Le She Juben 22 (The Beggar Prince: Traditional Drama Collection—Koa-a-hi volumes—Kung Lok Sia Scripts 22) . Taipei : Guo li chuantong yishu zhongxin choubei chu . Chow Rey . 1991 . Woman and Chinese...

... . Goldstein Joshua . 2007 . Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870 – 1937 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Hellier-Tinoco Ruth . 2011 . Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance . New York : Oxford University Press . Hongse...

... to end the war participated in this drama by accepting the superior power of the United States. Despite its hyperbole, this popular narrative was effective in defining the two countries’ perception of the war and how it ended...

... of nonmimetic drama poses a challenge for audiences used to the more clear-cut messages of socially engaged art practiced in the Migrant Workers Home. At the same time, the elusiveness and fragmentariness of Crow 2 Topia mirrors the instability experienced by many, regardless of their social background...

... Korea, with Korean drama and performance as his major. His doctoral dissertation thesis was titled “A Study on Reflexivity of the Traditional Korean Masked Dance Drama.” His research area is performance and performativity studies. He is currently a researcher at the Convergence Education Research...

..., as by an inadvertent act of mimicry, the classic Euro-­US drama of the rise and fall of the avant-­garde was reenacted on the Chinese stages.12 In China too, as we are told, the avant-­garde rose in an era of utopias and dreams — the 1980s — and fell...

... this very same Fairbankian drama in terms of Confucianism’s encounter with Western rationalism and the even- tual demise of the “Confucian tradition What strikes the perspicacious reader is how thoroughly Levenson’s picture of an entire culture...

..., not only in political arenas but also in cultural affairs. Gu Jiegang was one example; Ouyang Yuqian, a celebrated artist of both Beijing opera and new-style spoken drama, offered another impressive example a little bit later...

... as extras for workers and citizens from the Guang- dong Drama Research Institute that Ouyang had formed in 1928. When it was staged at the provincial Guomindang headquarters, the play generated much emotion both on and off stage...

... are primarily dedicated to aesthetic entertainments, while in Shenzhen, stages are primarily used for political rituals. Consider the following statistics: At the turn of the millennium, Houston had forty- three theaters producing dramas...

... This summary could very well be an epitaph for Ruan; the “she” here can easily refer both to Ruan the actress and to the character in the film, Wei Ming. To this day, the life-imitates-art drama remains a major source of fascination surrounding...

... knowledge. 13 Furthermore, Li's Taiwan has shown how an ingenious, critical mode of true-life drama can reactivate the past whereby a failed resistance mutates into a not-yet-finished event. Li's stage drama battles against compartmentalizing the past and recounting it in a reminiscent mood so...