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

by Rossella Ferrari
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780857420459
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: INR 595.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 636 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Performance

About the Book 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 theater in the People's Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives in the fields of comparative literature, theater, 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 theater, who is now one of Asia's foremost theater 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.

Ferrari, Rossella: -

Rossella Ferrari is lecturer in modern Chinese culture and language at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She has published articles in several journals, including Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, TDR: TheDramaReview, JournalofChineseCinemas, Journal of Contemporary China, and Postcolonial Studies.

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