Bernard Shaw's bridges to Chinese culture / Kay Li.
Li, Kay, author.
2016
PR5368.C47 L55 2016
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Title Bernard Shaw's bridges to Chinese culture / Kay Li.
Author Li, Kay, author.
ISBN 9783319410036 (electronic book)
3319410032 (electronic book)
3319410024
9783319410029
Published [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Call Number PR5368.C47 L55 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.912
Summary "Kay Li's study of Bernard Shaw's relationship with a number of leading Chinese figures and the assimilation of his plays into Chinese culture is a significant addition to her important previous work on Shaw and China. This new book expertly situates Shaw in wide-ranging spheres of Chinese culture, while also demonstrating the complexities of cross-cultural literary relations. It is a major contribution not just to Shaw studies but to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural dialogue."--Leaf W. Conolly, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Emeritus Professor of English, Trent University, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Seeing and Being Seen from Chinese Angles; Shaw from a Chinese Angle; Duality of the Chinese Angle; Significance of the Chinese Angle; Shaw and His Contemporaries: Seeing and Being Seen from Chinese Angles; Notes; Part I: Shaw and His Contemporaries: The Chinese Angle as Culturally Specific; Chapter 2: Seeing China: Shaw and His Contemporaries; Chinese Angles Seen from Chinese and Western Perspectives; Shavian Iconoclastic Uses of Chinese Angles; Chinese Angles behind Confucius in Back to Methuselah.

Chinese Angles as Alternatives to the WestJohn Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Shaw and the Bloomsbury Vision of China; Chinese Angles as Multiple and Inclusive; Notes; Chapter 3: Shaw and the Last Chinese Emperor, Henry Pu-yi Aisin-Gioro; The Chinese Angle Defined by the Chinese; Joan and the Dauphin, Johnston and Pu-yi; Pu-yi as Joan; Pu-yi and Shaw; Sinicization and Westernization; How Powerful Is the Chinese Angle?; Shaw and Dickens; Cultural Politics behind the Chinese Angles; Notes; Chapter 4: Mrs. Warren's Profession and Transnational Chinese Feminism.

Mrs. Warren Under the Lens of Chinese FeminismSoong Ching-ling and Bernard Shaw; Mrs. Warren and Its Chinese Audience; Building Chinese Feminism Through Realistic Films or Plays; Shavian Women in Chinese Martial Arts; Mrs. Warren and Transnational Chinese Feminism; Notes; Chapter 5: Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant Billions; Visualization; "Money": What the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Saw in Shaw; "Know": Speech at the University of Hong Kong; "Must": Meeting Sir Robert Ho Tung; Shaw's Chinese Angles and Buoyant Billions; Notes.

Part II: The Contemporaries of Shaw's Works: Chinese Angles as Multi-focalChapter 6: John Woo's My Fair Gentleman and the Evolution of Pygmalion in Contemporary China; My Fair Gentleman and the Official Chinese Angle; Focus on Shanghai: Marketing in the Metropolis; The Significance of My Fair Gentleman; A Hollywood Crew; A Romantic Comedy Played by a Stellar Cast; The Socio-Economic Angle: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Peasants; The New Chinese Angle: The Rise of the Market Economy; The Chinese Angle Tests Shaw's Play: Life Force and Creative Evolution.

The Final Tableau: The Chinese Angle Shared by the Common PeopleContemporary Chinese Angles: Woo's Pygmalion Effect in Other Films; The Official Chinese Angle: "Up, China"; Notes; Chapter 7: Chinese Film Adaptations of Shaw's Plays; Adaptation and Globalization: Cao Yu's Thunderstorm and Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower; Adapting Western Literature to the Chinese Screen: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Xiaogang Feng's The Banquet; Adapting a Chinese Martial Arts Novel to the Global Screen: Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

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