Dramayan

Dramayan
Author: Dr. Govind Raj GR7
Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2022-04-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Dramayan is a story of friendship, family and love. It's based in a small town of Karkala, a sleepy town at the base of Western Ghats in Karnataka. It traces travels and travails of a boy from boyhood to manhood. Happiness, hurt, heartbreak and hunt for the elusive. The protagonist grows up in an era before the world shrunk permanently thanks to internet. Dramayan is an ode to nostalgia. Dr. Govind Raj Shenoy (GR7) is a Doctor. He hails from Karkala in Karnataka, graduated from Government Medical College Bellary and lives in Kochi with his family. He is a polyglot with decent grasp of 9 languages. Cricket is religion. A Blogger since early days, he rants on Social media and writes satire for Organiser weekly apart from many online portals. He also indulges in writing fiction occasionally. GR7 is a nickname given by friends.

Chinese Aesthetics and Literature

Chinese Aesthetics and Literature
Author: Corinne H. Dale
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791460214

Featuring the work of renowned scholars, this anthology provides an introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature.

Theater and Society

Theater and Society
Author: Haiping Yan
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780765633828

Chinese spoken drama flourished in the 1980s when it generated a series of national controversies. In important respects, this was the golden age of drama in the People's Republic, as the stage became a most effective arena for exploring long suppressed cultural and political issues, constituting an indispensable dimension of the reform that has been altering the landscape of contemporary Chinese culture and society. The plays in this volume are among the most influential and controversial, having engendered intense cultural debate and political confrontations. They include the only complete English language translation of Bus Stop by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian. The film script was chosen from among the most acclaimed contemporary Chinese films for its high significance in the history of Chinese film and its international influence in the cinematic world. For general readers with diverse cultural and artistic interests, this anthology introduces a new world of performing culture that enriches, delights, and challenges. For students and scholars of modern Chinese culture and society, it provides insights into China's profound social, political, and cultural transformation. For students and scholars in theatre and film studies who are increasingly interested in dramatic creations beyond the boundaries of the European tradition, it offers much needed materials for broadening cultural horizons. Yan Haiping, who holds advanced degrees in theater arts from Cornell University, was awarded the First Prize for Excellence in Drama 1980-81 by the Society of Chinese Dramatists and the Ministry of Culture of the PRC for her ten-act historical play Li Shimin, Prince of Qin. contents Plays: WM, by Wang Peigong, playscript revised for performance by Wang Gui, translated by Thomas Moran; Pan Jinlian:The History of a Fallen Woman, by Wei Minglun, translated by Dave Williams with Xiaoxia Williams; Shanshuping Chronicles, by Chen Zidu, Yang Jian, Zhu Xiaoping, translated by Rong Cai; The Bus Stop by Gao Xingjian, translated by Kimberly Besio. Film: ld Well, by Zheng Yi, directed by Wu Tianming, translated by Shiaoling Yu.

Drama Kings

Drama Kings
Author: Joshua Goldstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2007-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520247523

Describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China. This book looks into the lives of some of the opera's key actors, and explores their methods for earning a living, and their status in an ever-changing society.

Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama

Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
Author: Haiping Yan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317453778

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

Building a New World

Building a New World
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137453028

With an original introduction by Luce Irigaray, and original texts from her students and collaborators, this book imagines the outlines of a more just, ecologically attuned world that flourishes on the basis of sexuate difference.

Modern China and the West

Modern China and the West
Author: Hsiao-yen PENG
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004270221

In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in the act of cultural mediation. They pay attention to transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, which dictate what, and even how, to translate. Under such circumstances, is there room for individual translators or mediators to exercise their free will? To what extent are they allowed to do so? The authors see translation as a "shaping force." While intending to shape, or reshape, certain concepts through the translating act, translators and cultural actors need to negotiate among multifarious institutional powers that coexist, including traditional and foreign. Contributors include: Françoise Kreissler, Angel Pino, Shan Te-hsing, Nicolai Volland, Joyce C. H. Liu, Huang Ko-wu, Isabelle Rabut, Xiaomei Chen, Zhang Yinde, Peng Hsiao-yen, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, and Pin-chia Feng.

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century II

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century II
Author: Fu Jin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429825595

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century display the developmental trajectories of Chinese theatre over those 100 years. This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1949 to 2000, covering the fluctuations of 'drama reform', spectacles of the 'Cultural Revolution', and theatre in the immediate years before the opening up of the country. The author demonstrates how Chinese dramatic traditions endured and adapted in the face of modernity and how politics and art interacted. By combining academic rigour with a high degree of readability, this volume is both an essential guide for scholars and students in the history of the arts and general readers interested in Chinese theatre.

An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies

An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies
Author: Jim Cheng
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231540337

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwanese film scholars from the 1950s to 2013. Paired with An Annotated Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies (2004), which accounts for texts dating back to the 1920s, this series brings together like no other reference the disparate voices of Chinese film scholarship, charting its unique intellectual arc. Organized intuitively, the volume begins with reference materials (bibliographies, cinematographies, directories, indexes, dictionaries, and handbooks) and then moves through film history (the colonial period, Taiwan dialect film, new Taiwan cinema, the 2/28 incident); film genres (animated, anticommunist, documentary, ethnographic, martial arts, teen); film reviews; film theory and technique; interdisciplinary studies (Taiwan and mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, film and aboriginal peoples, film and literature, film and nationality); biographical materials; film stories, screenplays, and scripts; film technology; and miscellaneous aspects of Taiwanese film scholarship (artifacts, acts of censorship, copyright law, distribution channels, film festivals, and industry practice). Works written in multiple languages include transliteration/romanized and original script entries, which follow universal AACR-2 and American cataloguing standards, and professional notations by the editors to aid in the use of sources.