Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

by Daphne P. Lei

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.

359 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2006

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a brilliant book explaining how opera became real, and real became opera! It isn't about martial arts directly but about how ideas about who "we" are changed over time. And by "we" I mean martial artists with roots in Chinese culture.