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Author: Samuel L. Leiter
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9781573569514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlphabetically arranged entries present information about playwrights, directors, actors, places, themes, styles, costumes, and sets of both modern and traditional Asian theater.
Author: Samuel L. Leiter
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlphabetically arranged entries present information about playwrights, directors, actors, places, themes, styles, costumes, and sets of both modern and traditional Asian theater.
Author: Siyuan Liu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 1317278860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoutledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overviews on a variety of topics across Asia, including dance, music, puppetry, make-up and costume, architecture, colonialism, modernity, gender, musicals, and intercultural Shakespeare. This volume is divided into four sections covering: Representative Theatrical Traditions in Asia. Cross-Regional Aspects of Classical and Folk Theatres. Modern and Contemporary Theatres in Asian Countries. Modernity, Gender Performance, Intercultural and Musical Theatre in Asia. Offering a cutting edge overview of Asian theatre and performance, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students studying this ever-evolving field.
Author: Dennis Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 0199574197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.
Author: James R. Brandon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521588225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.
Author: Wenying Xu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1538157322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.
Author: Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys traditional and contemporary Asian theatre through hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 90 expert contributors.
Author: Shin'ichi Suzuki
Publisher:
Published: 2023-01-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780367617240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is a comprehensive resource on modern Asian educators from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia and their contributions to Asian educational development through the 19th and 20th centuries.
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1136119000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author: Josephine Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780190699819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the past four decades, the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies has grown enormously, expanding its areas of inquiry beyond reflection on the straight-line patterns of immigration, assimilation, and citizenship to encompass issues such as transnational and diasporic identities and communities, the workings of imperialism, the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, and social justice/human rights in a global context. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture will offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of this important literary tradition, covering the span of Asian American literature from the late nineteenth-century large-scale immigration of Chinese to the United States and Canada to the present. All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature"--
