TY - BOOK ID - 10155137 TI - Pop goes the avant-garde : experimental theatre in contemporary China PY - 2012 SN - 9780857420459 0857420453 PB - London : Seagull Books DB - UniCat KW - Experimental theater KW - Theater KW - S16/0320 KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Alternative theater KW - Avant-garde theater KW - History KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern theatre: studies KW - Meng, Jinghui, KW - 孟京辉, KW - Meng, Jing Hui, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10155137 AB - Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives in the fields of comparative literature, theater, performance, and culture studies, the book explores key artistic movements and phenomena that have emerged in China’s major cultural centers in the last several decades. It surveys the work of China’s most influential dramatists, directors and performance groups, with a special focus on Beijing-based playwright, director and filmmaker Meng Jinghui—the former enfant terrible of Beijing theater, who is now one of Asia’s foremost theater personalities. Through an extensive critique of theories of modernism and the avant-garde, the author reassesses the meanings, functions and socio-historical significance of this work in non-Western contexts by proposing a new theoretical construct—the pop avant-garde—and exploring new ways to understand and conceptualize aesthetic practices beyond Euro-American cultures and critical discourses. ER -