Title Chinese adaptations of Brecht : appropriation and intertextuality / Wei Zhang

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Chinese literature and culture in the world Chinese literature and culture in the world. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: One Director, Three Takes: Chen Yong's Reinterpretations of Life of Galileo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Threepenny Opera -- Chapter 3 Good Persons of Sichuan, Jiangnan, and Beijing: Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan and Chinese Xiqu Adaptations -- Chapter 4: Concentric Circles: Two Chuanju Reinterpretations of The Caucasian Chalk Circle as The Chalk Circle -- Chapter 5: Modernity, Chinese Culture, and Intertextuality: Bertolt Brecht's Turandot and Wei Minglun's Chuanju Play Chinese Princess Dulanduo -- Chapter 6: Brecht and Mao Zedong: Two Sides of "The Other Side" and "Twice Removed" Vision of "Snow" -- Chapter 7: Conclusion Summary This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht's plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Adaptations Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Stage history Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Dramatic production SUBJECT Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 fast Subject Theater -- China -- History -- 20th century Theater -- China -- History -- 21st century Theater China Genre/Form Electronic books Adaptations History Adaptations. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030377786 3030377784

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