Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China

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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic PI Oriental languages and literatures
PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
description Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theatre in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives in the fields of comparative literature, theatre, performance, and culture studies, the book explores key artistic movements and phenomena that have emerged in China’s major cultural centers in the last several decades. It surveys the work of China’s most influential dramatists, directors and performance groups, with a special focus on Beijing-based playwright, director and filmmaker Meng Jinghui—the former enfant terrible of Beijing theatre, who is now one of Asia’s foremost theatre personalities. Through an extensive critique of theories of modernism and the avant-garde, the author reassesses the meanings, functions and socio-historical significance of this work in non-Western contexts by proposing a new theoretical construct—the pop avant-garde—and exploring new ways to understand and conceptualize aesthetic practices beyond Euro-American cultures and critical discourses.
format Authored Books
author Ferrari, Rossella
author_facet Ferrari, Rossella
authorStr Ferrari, Rossella
author_letter Ferrari, Rossella
title Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China
publisher Seagull Books
publishDate 2012
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/10348/

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