Modernization of Asian Theatres Process and Tradition
This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theat
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dernization of Asian Theatres Process and Tradition
Modernization of Asian Theatres
Yasushi Nagata • Ravi Chaturvedi Editors
Modernization of Asian Theatres Process and Tradition
Editors Yasushi Nagata Graduate School of Letters Osaka University Osaka, Japan
Ravi Chaturvedi School of Media and Communication Manipal University Jaipur Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Foreword
The present volume deals specifically with traditional Asian theatre forms and looks at their historical interconnectedness with western theatre forms. What we have here specifically is more than a dozen new essays on Asian theatre. Each focuses in its own way on the relationship between the modern and the traditional theatre, and they cover such countries as China (three essays); Taiwan (two); Hong Kong; Okinawa, Japan (two); Korea (two); Malaysia (two); and Singapore. There is also an essay on India. It is a very rich collection which looks perceptively at and points scholars towards many new areas for future research. In China, for example, we learn much that is new about Uyghur drama and about the reception of the French well-made play tradition in the country. We also learn about
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