Bernard Shaws Bridges to Chinese Culture [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction. The Chinese Angles.- Chapter. 1 Introduction.- Part I. Shaw and his Contemporaries.-  Chapter 2. Seeing China.- Chapter 3. Shaw and the Last Chinese Emperor, Henry Pu-Yi Aisin-Gioro.- Chapter 4. Mrs. Warren's Profession and Transnational Chinese Feminism.- Chapter 5. Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant Billions.- Part II. The Contemporaries of Shaws Works.- Chapter 6. John Woos My Fair Gentleman and the Evolution of Pygmalion in Contemporary China.- Chapter 7. Chinese Film Adaptations of Shaws Plays.- Chapter 8. Nobel Laureates Shaw and Gao Xingjian.- Chapter 9. Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and Microblogs.- Chapter 10. Bernard Shaws Bridges to Chinese Culture.- Bibliography.   

The book offers illuminating looks at the Shaw plays most often performed and adapted by Chinese artists, and at the emphases and modifications by which directors and actors made the plays responsilÓA