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The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance An Intercultural Perspective
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Legitimation of Tradition and the Construction of an Intercultural Myth - Mei Lanfang Remembers Stanislavsky
Chapter 2: The Refraction of Tradition - Meyerhold’s and Stanislavsky’s Approaches to Pushkin and Meyerhold’s Pushkinization of Mei Lanfang’s Art
Chapter 3: The Consecration of Tradition - Eisenstein’s Approach to Chinese Theatre and Culture
Chapter 4: The Uncanny Quotability of Tradition: Walter Benjamin’s Interest in Chinese
Cultural Traditions
Chapter 5: The Fabrication of Tradition - Lady Precious Stream, a Chinese Chinoiserie Anglicized on Modern British Stage
Chapter 6: The Reification of Tradition - Meyerhold’s Influence on Twentieth-Century Japanese and Chinese Theatres
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Min Tian has taught as an Associate Professor at the China Central Academy of Drama and currently works at the University of Iowa, USA.
