Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality

by Wei Zhang

This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht's plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030377776
• ISBN13: 9783030377779
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"