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Book SynopsisExpressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present. Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even transformed during a critical phase in the modernization of Chinese drama during the post-Maoist era.
Six leading Chinese dramatists (Gao Xingjian, Lin Zhaohua, Huang Zuolin, Xu Xiaozhong, Meng Jinghui, and Stan Lai) are clear representatives of opening up a new world of modern Chinese drama. They embody each of the major phases of the adoption, deformation, and multicultural infusion of Expressionism in the development of Chinese dramatic modernization. Approaching their dramatic works from multiple perspectives, including expressionist vision and techniques, comparative aesthetics, Bakhtinian chronotope and heteroglossia, semiotics, psychic interiority, and concluding with Lu Xun's definition of Expressionism
Table of ContentsContents: Epressionism Then and Now – The Influx of Expressionism in the Post-Maoist Theatre – Under the Web of Realism – «Scream» from the Soul – Trans-Expressionism – Emotion, Visuality, Subjectivity – A White Camellia beyond Signs Confusion.
