{"product_id":"chinese-shakespeares-alexa-huang-9780231148498","title":"Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese \"Shakespeare,\" and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding a rich trove of transnational imagery and paradoxical citations in popular and political culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinese Shakespeares\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to concentrate on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture and their ambiguous relationship to the postcolonial question. Substantiated by case studies of major cultural events and texts from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times, \u003ci\u003eChinese Shakespeares\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes competing visions of \"China\" and \"Shakespeare\" in the global cultural marketplace and challenges the logic of fidelity-based criticism and the myth of cultural exclusivity. In her critique of the locality and ideological investments of authenticity in nationalism, modernity, Marxism, and personal identities, Huang reveals the truly transformative power of Chinese Shakespeares.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexa Huang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231148496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231148498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013 pg. 38","brand":"Alexa Huang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913485385983,"sku":"9780231148498","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e9566b9c-5fb9-4b51-93ab-3142d26db71f.jpg?v=1680620633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chinese-shakespeares-alexa-huang-9780231148498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}