Chinese Adaptations Of Brecht Appropriation And Intertextuality - Wei Zhang

This Book Examines The Two-way Impacts Between Brecht And Chinese Culture And Dramatheatre, 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 Brechts Plays Have Been Adaptedappropriated By Chinese Theatre Artists To Speak To The Sociopolitical, Economic, And Cultural Developments In China And How Such Endeavors Reflect And Result From Dynamic Interactions Between Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, And Aesthetics, Especially As Embodied In Traditionalnbsp;xiqunbsp;and The Brechtian Concepts Of Estrangement (verfremdungseffekt) And Political Theatre. In Examining These Brecht Adaptations, Zhang Offers An Interdisciplinary Study That Contributes To The Fields Of Comparative Dramatheatre Studies, Intercultural Studies, And Performance Studies.