Title: Bernard Shaw's bridges to Chinese culture /
Authors: Li, Kay,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shaw, Bernard; Shaw, Bernard, Appreciation China.; Shaw, Bernard,; Chinabild; Rezeption; Theater China History; Art appreciation; Civilization Western influences; Theater; China; China Civilization Western influences; China
Abstract: 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 simlutaneously 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.
Contents: Introduction: seeing and being seen from Chinese angles -- Part I. Shaw and his contemporaries: the Chinese angle as culturally specific -- Seeing China: Shaw and his contemporaries -- Shaw and the last Chinese emperor, Henry Pu-yi Aisin-Gioro -- Mrs. Warren's profession and transnational Chinese feminism -- Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant billions -- Part II. The contemporaries of Shaw's works: Chinese angles as multi-focal -- John Woo's My fair gentleman and the evolution of Pygmalion in contemporary China -- Chinese film adaptation of Shaw's plays -- Nobel Laureates Bernard Shaw and Gao Xingjian -- Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and in microblogs -- Bernard Shaw's bridges to Chinese culture.