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Intercultural theater is a prominent phenomena of twentieth-century international theater. This books views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement a
This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese histo
This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artist