The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama
ISBN: 9780231521604
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Chinese drama -- 20th century -- Translations into English;

This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama.

Xiaomei Chen is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China and Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Culture in Contemporary China ; editor of Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama ; and coeditor of East of West: Cross-cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference .

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