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Operatic China

Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History (PSTPH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Lotus and Mud

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 1-23

  3. Chinese Theatre and the Eternal Frontier in Nineteenth-Century California

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 25-85

  4. Local, National, and International Performance of Barbarians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 87-132

  5. Rebellion, Revolution, and Theatricality in Late Qing China

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 133-172

  6. San Francisco Chinatown, Cantonese Opera, and the New Millennium

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 173-205

  7. The Global Consensus in Chinese Opera on Stage and Screen

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 207-254

  8. Epilogue: What Could Be More Chinese Than Chinese Opera?

    • Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
    Pages 255-260

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 261-348
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About this book

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.

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"Comparatively little has been written on Chinese opera, and this is perhaps the first book to look at how that tradition functions in immigrant populations in other geographic areas...Recommended." - CHOICE

About the author

DAPHNE P. LEI is Assistant Professor of Drama, University of California-Irvine, USA, having received her BA from Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan (English), MA from California State University, Los Angeles (Theatre Arts), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities from Stanford University (Drama) and her PhD from Tufts. Her interests and expertise include Asian Theatre, Asian American Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Chinese Theatre and Film, Post-Colonial and Diasporic Theatre, and Gender and Performance. She has taught at the Chinese Culture University (Taiwan), Tufts, and Stanford University, and has directed plays with Asian American casts at Harvard and Stanford, and conducted playwriting workshops for Asian American students at Stanford. She has published articles on the subjects of pre-modern Chinese theatre, gender and ethnicity, Chinese immigrant theatre, and Asian American playwrights.

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