{"product_id":"denationalizing-identities-the-politics-of-performance-in-the-chinese-diaspora-paperback-softback-9781501776717","title":"Denationalizing Identities; The Politics of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501776717","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDenationalizing Identities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWah Guan Lim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501776717\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 5 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenationalizing Identities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere.\u003c\/b\u003e Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of \"Chineseness\" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the height of the Cold War, the \"Bamboo Curtain\" divided the \"two Chinas\" across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Hong Kong prepared for its handover to the People's Republic of China and Singapore rethought Chinese education. As geopolitical tensions imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region, these four dramatists wove together local, foreign, and Chinese elements in their art, challenging mainland China's narrative of an inevitable communist outcome. By performing cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own states, they debunked notions of a unified Chineseness. \u003ci\u003eDenationalizing Identities\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the key role theater and performance played in circulating people and ideas across the Chinese-speaking world, well before cross-strait relations began to thaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Articulating an Alternative Cultural Identity: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Theater Practice in Singapore\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Incomplete Break with the Past: The Remaking of Identity in Stan Lai's Taiwanese Theater\u003cbr\u003e 3. Theater of Rebellion: Danny Yung and Experimental Hong Kong Theater\u003cbr\u003e 4. Diaspora within China: Gao Xingjian and the Theater of Exile\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell East Asia Series","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608271253784,"sku":"9781501776717","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/denationalizing-identities-the-politics-of-performance-in-the-chinese-diaspora-paperback-softback-9781501776717","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}