Bernard Shaw's bridges to Chinese culture. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kay Li.
• Authors: Li, Kay
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Seeing and Being Seen from Chinese Angles; Shaw from a Chinese Angle; Duality of the Chinese Angle; Significance of the Chinese Angle; Shaw and His Contemporaries: Seeing and Being Seen from Chinese Angles; Notes; Part I: Shaw and His Contemporaries: The Chinese Angle as Culturally Specific; Chapter 2: Seeing China: Shaw and His Contemporaries; Chinese Angles Seen from Chinese and Western Perspectives; Shavian Iconoclastic Uses of Chinese Angles; Chinese Angles behind Confucius in Back to Methuselah Chinese Angles as Alternatives to the WestJohn Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Shaw and the Bloomsbury Vision of China; Chinese Angles as Multiple and Inclusive; Notes; Chapter 3: Shaw and the Last Chinese Emperor, Henry Pu-yi Aisin-Gioro; The Chinese Angle Defined by the Chinese; Joan and the Dauphin, Johnston and Pu-yi; Pu-yi as Joan; Pu-yi and Shaw; Sinicization and Westernization; How Powerful Is the Chinese Angle?; Shaw and Dickens; Cultural Politics behind the Chinese Angles; Notes; Chapter 4: Mrs. Warren's Profession and Transnational Chinese Feminism Mrs. Warren Under the Lens of Chinese FeminismSoong Ching-ling and Bernard Shaw; Mrs. Warren and Its Chinese Audience; Building Chinese Feminism Through Realistic Films or Plays; Shavian Women in Chinese Martial Arts; Mrs. Warren and Transnational Chinese Feminism; Notes; Chapter 5: Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant Billions; Visualization; "Money": What the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Saw in Shaw; "Know": Speech at the University of Hong Kong; "Must": Meeting Sir Robert Ho Tung; Shaw's Chinese Angles and Buoyant Billions; Notes Part II: The Contemporaries of Shaw's Works: Chinese Angles as Multi-focalChapter 6: John Woo's My Fair Gentleman and the Evolution of Pygmalion in Contemporary China; My Fair Gentleman and the Official Chinese Angle; Focus on Shanghai: Marketing in the Metropolis; The Significance of My Fair Gentleman; A Hollywood Crew; A Romantic Comedy Played by a Stellar Cast; The Socio-Economic Angle: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Peasants; The New Chinese Angle: The Rise of the Market Economy; The Chinese Angle Tests Shaw's Play: Life Force and Creative Evolution The Final Tableau: The Chinese Angle Shared by the Common PeopleContemporary Chinese Angles: Woo's Pygmalion Effect in Other Films; The Official Chinese Angle: "Up, China"; Notes; Chapter 7: Chinese Film Adaptations of Shaw's Plays; Adaptation and Globalization: Cao Yu's Thunderstorm and Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower; Adapting Western Literature to the Chinese Screen: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Xiaogang Feng's The Banquet; Adapting a Chinese Martial Arts Novel to the Global Screen: Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 822.912; Theater -- China -- History -- 20th century; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Art; Art appreciation; Civilization -- Western influences; Theater; Social Science -- General; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Comparative literature; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Theatre studies; China -- Civilization -- Western influences; China; Electronic books; Electronic books; History; Knowledge -- China; Appreciation -- China
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319410036; 3319410032
• Related ISBNs: 3319410024; 9783319410029
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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