Revolutionary Stagecraft – Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

Revolutionary StagecraftTheater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China\nAuthor(s): Tarryn Li-Min Chun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472076567, 978-0472076567\nSynopsis\nRevolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over how to make theater amid the political upheavals of Chinas 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920swhen Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipmentand ends in the 1980s when China's scientific and technological boom began. By examining iconic plays and perform.