Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange

Alexander C. Y. Huang

Paper, 368 pages, 26 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-231-14849-8
$26.50 / £18.50

June, 2009
Cloth, 368 pages, 26 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-231-14848-1
$84.50 / £58.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Texts and Translation

Prologue

Part I Theorizing Global Localities

1. Owning Chinese Shakespeares

Part II The Fiction of Moral Space

2. Shakespeare in Absentia: The Genealogy of an Obsession

3. Rescripting Moral Criticism: Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, and Lao She

Part III Locality at Work

4. Silent Film and Early Theater: Performing Womanhood and Cosmopolitanism

5. Site-Specific Readings: Confucian Temple, Labor Camp, and Soviet-Chinese Theater

Part IV Postmodern Shakespearean Orients

6. Why Does Everyone Need Chinese Opera?

7. Disowning Shakespeare and China

Epilogue

Select Chronology

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Cultural Studies
• East Asian Studies
• European and British Literature
• Film
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Global Chinese Culture

About the Author

Alexander C. Y. Huang is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is the coeditor, with Charles Ross, of Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace, and his publications on Shakespeare performance and modern Chinese-language drama and literature have appeared in MLQ, Shakespeare Bulletin, Asian Theatre Journal, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, and Shakespeare Studies, among other publications.

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