- Title: Subtitle
- Mei Lanfang and the twentieth-century international stage: Chinese theatre placed and displaced
- Creators
- Min Tian
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- Introduction -- Redefining a cultural nation and reifying a theatre tradition: Mei Lanfang's international debut in Japan -- The gentlemanly "leading lady" as "ambassador in art": Mei Lanfang's 1930-tour of the United States -- Glory or shame to the Chinese nation: the Chinese debate on Mei Lanfang's 1935-visit to the Soviet Union -- Learning "the practical lesson": the interpretations and appropriations of Mei Lanfang's art by the Soviet theatre -- The effect of displacement: Bertolt Brecht's interpretation and refunctioning of Mei Lanfang's art -- Conclusion.
- Series
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- ISBN
- 9780230112445; 0230112447
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; New York
- Format
- 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Number of pages
- 298 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Humanities and Social Sciences/Scholarly Impact
- Record Identifier
- 9984560455102771
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Mei Lanfang and the twentieth-century international stage: Chinese theatre placed and displaced
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history, Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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