 | Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda Subjects: China -- History -- 1949 -- Historiography; Theater -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century; Heads of state -- China -- Biography; Biography -- Political aspects; China -- Politics and government -- 1949 -- Biography; Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Xiaomei Chen is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis, where she also teaches performance studies and comparative literature. She is the author of Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (1995; second and expanded edition, 2002), Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China (2002) and editor of Reading the Right Text (2003) and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (Columbia, 2010; abridged edition 2014). She is the coeditor, with Claire Sponsler, of East of West: Cross-Cultural Performances and the Staging of Difference (2001); with Julia Andrews, of Visual Culture in Contemporary China (2001); and with Steven Siyuan Liu, of Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in Republic-Era China (2015). |
