Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One
Chapter One From the Neo-Classical to the Early Avant-garde: Europe’s First
Encounters with Traditional Chinese Theatre
Chapter Two The Effect of Displacement: Brecht’s Concept of “Alienation Effect” and
Traditional Chinese Theatre
Chapter Three Re-Theatricalizing the Theatre of the Grotesque: Meyerhold’s “Theatre of
Convention” and Traditional Chinese Theatre
Chapter Four “The danger of knowing all about the East”: Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang
and the Chinese Theatre
Chapter Five Traditions, Differences, and Displacements: the Theoretical Construct of
Eugenio Barba’s “Eurasian Theatre”
Chapter Six Intercultural Theatre at the New Fin de Siècle: Peter Sellars’s Postmodern
Approach to Traditional Chinese Theatre
Part Two
Chapter Seven In Search of the Modern: Intercultural Transformation of Modern Chinese
Theatre
Chapter Eight Wiping Real Tears with Water-Sleeves: the Displacement of Stanislavsky
to Traditional Chinese Theatre
Chapter Nine From “Avant-garde” to “Tradition”: Contemporary Chinese Theatre in
Search of Identity
Chapter Ten When Cathay Meets Greek: the Adaptation and Staging of Greek Tragedy in
Traditional Chinese Theatrical Forms
Chapter Eleven Sinicizing the Bard: the Adaptation and Staging of Shakespeare in
Traditional Chinese Theatrical Forms
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
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