Recently added articles from Asian Theatre Journal:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; Foley, Kathy ... This issue starts with "Three Dollars in National Currency: A One-Act Comedy by Ding Xilin," a play translated by Christopher Rea. The play and Rea's introduction show the reactions of the writer Ding Xilin to the politics of Japanese-occupied China in the 1930s. Barbara Thornbury's ...
Three Dollars in National Currency: a one-act comedy by Ding Xilin.(PLAY)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Rea, Christopher G. ... Three Dollars in National Currency (San kuai giau guobi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] 1939) is a little-known one-act comedy that was written in southwestern China during the third year of the Second Sino-Japanese War by Ding Xilin [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (1893-1974), one of ...
America's Kabuki-Japan, 1952-1960: Image Building, Myth Making, and Cultural Exchange.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Thornbury, Barbara E. ... Visits to the United States by the Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians in the mid-1950s and the Grand Kabuki in 1960 took place against the backdrop of a Cold War imperative to secure Japan as an American friend in Asia. Even before the Occupation officially ended in April 1952, kabuki was ...
Fire in the Banana's Belly: Bali's Female Performers Essay the Masculine Arts.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Diamond, Catherine ... Balinese performing arts have had remarkable fluidity in their gender presentation, in which female impersonators have predominated. Over the past twenty five years, however, women have been making inroads in the presentation of female characters, then androgynous characters, and now even ...
"A mixed-blooded child, neither western nor eastern:" sinicization of Western-Style theatre in rural China in the 1930s.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Liu, Siyuan ... From 1932 to 1937, Xiong Foxi, a Chinese playwright, director, and theatre professor who had studied theatre at Columbia University, directed the drama division of a high--profile literacy campaign in the villages of Ding Xian County in northern China. There, he and his colleagues staged ...
The transfiguration of Indian/Asian dance in the United Kingdom: contemporary Bharatanatyam in global contexts.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Meduri, Avanthi ... Bharatanatyam in Great Britain is currently identified as a South Asian dance. This understanding of the art as a transnational genre of a geolocal area contrasts with the Indian perspective of the form as an Indian national art of the nation state. This paper traces the development of the ...
Mock courts and the Pakistani Bhand.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Pamment, Claire ... Munir Hussain (b. 1949), a prominent bhand (wandering comic), playfully teases at the mise-en-scene of Pakistani politics. This contemporary performer in his anecdotes in performances at weddings draws on the long comedic tradition to form a vibrant critique of the present sociopolitical ...
Yuanyang Zhong (Mandarin Duck Tomb).(Opera review)
Sep 22, 2008; Evans, Megan ... YUANYANG ZHONG (MANDARIN DUCK TOMB). By Zhang Huoding Theatre Workshop, National Peking Opera Theatre of China, Chang'an Grand Theatre, Beijing, 24 November 2006. In the current context of "xiqu (Chinese opera) in crisis," performances are opportunities for diagnostic ...
A Dialogue Between Sichuan And Beijing Opera.(Theater review)
Sep 22, 2008; Scott, Jeffrey ... A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SICHUAN AND BEIJING OPERA. Produced by David Wong. Sponsored by the Texas Performing Chinese Arts Association. Chinese Opera Cultural Goodwill Tour of Texas, 1-19 April 2007. Goodwill and cultural exchange were the ends; the arts were the means. This ...
Odalan Bali.(Dance review)
Sep 22, 2008; Foley, Kathy ... ODALAN BALI. Created by Cudamani, directed and composed by I Dewa Putu Berata, choreography by I Nyoman Cerita, codirected by Emiko Susilo, concept and production by Judy Mitoma. Mondavi Center for the Arts, Davis, California, 16 November 2007. How could you (and should you) ...
Four Contemporary Korean plays.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Park, Chan E. ... FOUR CONTEMPORARY KOREAN PLAYS. By Lee Yun-Taek, translated by Dongwook Kim and Richard Nichols, with introductions by Richard Nichols. University Press of America, 2007, 156 pp. Paper $30.83. Translation of Korean literature gains speed as readership abroad increases, with ...
Chinese Women Writers And The Feminist Imagination.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Dooling, Amy ... CHINESE WOMEN WRITERS AND THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION, 1905-1948. By Yan Haiping. London: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover $130.00. Once a relatively marginalized topic, studies of women's participation in the formation of twentieth-century literary culture in China have proliferated ...
Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across The Pacific.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Thorpe, Ashley ... OPERATIC CHINA: STAGING CHINESE IDENTITY ACROSS THE PACIFIC. By Daphne P. Lei. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 360 pp. Hardcover $69.95. "What could be more Chinese than Chinese opera?" asks Lei at the end of her imaginative study of Chinese opera and identity. The book, ...
Three Kingdoms And Chinese Culture.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Liu, Siyuan ... THREE KINGDOMS AND CHINESE CULTURE. Edited by Kimberly Besio and Constantine Tung. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xxvi + 193 pp. 10 illustrations. Hardcover $65.00. As one of the four famous classical Chinese novels, Three Kingdoms has provided Chinese culture ...
Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6: Haresh Sharma: The Cultural Politics OF Playwriting in Contemporary Singapore.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Philip, Susan ... INTERLOGUE: STUDIES IN SINGAPORE LITERATURE, VOL. 6: HARESH SHARMA: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF PLAYWRITING IN CONTEMPORARY SINGAPORE. By David Birch. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2007. 284 pp. Paper $16.00. Singapore publishing company Ethos Books is doing a valuable service to the ...
Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theatre Company.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Foley, Kathy ... SAVAGE STAGE: PLAYS BY MA-YI THEATRE COMPANY. Edited by Joi Barrios-Leblanc. New York: Ma-Yi Theatre Company, 2006. 441 pp. $25.00. I opened this book envisioning a retrospective on the first seventeen years of an Asian American theatre company. In reading the text I realized I ...
Dancing From the Past to the Present: Nation, Culture, Identities.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Foley, Kathy ... DANCING FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT: NATION, CULTURE, IDENTITIES. Edited by Theresa Jill Buckland. Studies in Dance History series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 320 pp. 32 black and white photos, 6 maps, 2 illustrations. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95. This ...
The Traditional Theatre of Japan: Kyogen, Noh, Kabuki, and Puppetry.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Leiter, Samuel L. ... THE TRADITIONAL THEATRE OF JAPAN: KYOGEN, NOH, KABUKI, AND PUPPETRY. By John Wesley Harris. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. iv + 253 pp. $109.95. Many readers of this journal know that it is becoming increasingly difficult for theatre scholars to get their books ...