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✦ LIBER ✦
The Columbia anthology of modern Chinese drama
✍ Scribed by Xiaomei Chen
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 557 KB
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0231535546
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Introduction -- 1. The main event in life (1919) / Hu Shi ; translated by Edward M. Gunn -- 2. The night the tiger was caught (1922-23) / Tian Han ; translated by Jonathan S. Noble -- 3. After returning home (1922) / Ouyang Yuqian ; translated by Jonathan S. Noble -- 4. A wasp (1923) / Ding Xilin ; translated by John B. Weinstein and Casey Yee -- 5. Breaking out of Ghost Pagoda / Bai Wei ; translated by Paul B. Foster -- 6. Thunderstorm (1934) / Cao Yu ; translated by Wang Tso-liang and A. C. Barnes, revised translation by Charles Qianzhi Wu, with a translation of prologue and epilogue.;"This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's ... original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural and asethetic evolution of twentieth century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performace that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political conflict, and war. Chosen works from 1919 to 1990 also highlight the formation of national and gender identities during a period of tremendous social, cultural, and political change in China and the genesis of contemporary attitudes toward the West. ..."--Back cover.;7. Under Shanghai eaves (1937) / Xia Yan ; translated by George Hayden ; 8. Teahouse (1958) / Lao She ; translated by Ying Rucheng, revised by Claire Conceison -- 9. Guan Hanqing (1958) / Tian Han ; translated by Amy Dooling -- 10. The young generation (1965) / Chen Yun ; translated by Constantine Tung and Kevin A. O'Connor -- 11. The red lantern (1970) / Weng Ouhong, A. Jia, revised by the China Peking Opera Troupe ; translated by Brenda Austin and John B. Weinstein -- 12. The bus stop (1983) / Gao Xingjian ; translated by Shiao-Ling Yu -- Jiang Qing and her husbands (1990) / Sha Yexin ; translated by Kirk A. Denton.
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