Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)

by: Shouhua Qi (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 31 Oct. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 208 pages

ISBN-10: 3031169336

ISBN-13: 9783031169335

Book Description

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Weste playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on mode Chinese cultural life.