Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Lightness of being in China : adaptation and discursive figuration in cinema and theater / Harry H. Kuoshu.

By: Series: Asian thought and culture ; v. 37.Publication details: New York : P. Lang, c1999.Description: x, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0820445436
  • 9780820445434
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Lightness of being in China.DDC classification:
  • 792/.0951 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C36 K86 1999
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Visualizing Ah Q: An Allegory's Resistance to Representation -- 3. Dramatizing Xianglin Sao: Light Cast on an Opaque Figure -- 4. The White-Haired Girl & Li Shuangshuang: Female Visibility and The Socialist Feminism -- 5. Othering the National Minorities: Exoticism and the Self-reflexivity -- 6. Filming Marginal Youth: The "Beyond" Syndrome in the Postsocialist City.
Review: "This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis.Summary: The study promotes an understanding of recent Chinese representation, especially that in cinema."--BOOK JACKET.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks PN1995.9.C36 K86 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00010466

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and index.

Filmography: p. [175]-180.

1. Introduction -- 2. Visualizing Ah Q: An Allegory's Resistance to Representation -- 3. Dramatizing Xianglin Sao: Light Cast on an Opaque Figure -- 4. The White-Haired Girl & Li Shuangshuang: Female Visibility and The Socialist Feminism -- 5. Othering the National Minorities: Exoticism and the Self-reflexivity -- 6. Filming Marginal Youth: The "Beyond" Syndrome in the Postsocialist City.

"This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis.

The study promotes an understanding of recent Chinese representation, especially that in cinema."--BOOK JACKET.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.