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The Happy Hsiungs : Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity.
Between 1935 and 1936, the play Lady Precious Stream was a big success as being performed and running for 1,000 nights at the Little Theatre in London. Its writer-director, Shih-I Hsiung, was the first Chinese person to direct a West End play. Hsiung's wife, Dymia, was also remarkable as the fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press, HKU,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Prelude; 1. Adrift in New China: Learning, Love and Labour; 2. 'Try Something Different. Something Really Chinese'; 3. 'The Greatest Success': The Rise to Global Fame; 4. China Fashion and the Politics of Success; 5. The Kaleidoscope of China: Authenticity, Orientalism and Discontents; 6. The End to Old Cathay?; 7. 'Looking Like an English Household': Performing Class, Family and Home; 8. Goddess, Housewife, Writer; 9. Into the Shadows; 10. Global and Contemporary Revivals; Afterword; Glossary of Names; Notes.