Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 12, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9783319410029
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)