Lightness of being in China
Subtitle: adaptation and discursive figuration in cinema and theater
By: Harry H. Kuoshu.
Series: Asian thought and culture,; v. 37
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in motion pictures.; Motion pictures and literature -- China.; Theater -- China.
Description: "This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis.

The study promotes an understanding of recent Chinese representation, especially that in cinema."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and index.
Filmography: p. [175]-180.