Title: Lightness of being in China
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in motion pictures, Theater, Motion pictures and literature, Motion pictures, china, Theater, china
Places: China
LC classification: PN1995.9.C36 K86 1999