256 pp. January 1999
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2164-7, $17.00
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2163-0, $30.00
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Asia
China
art
theater
gender |
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Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition
by Rozanna Lilley
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This beautifully written and well-informed book presents a comprehensive study of Zuni Icosahedron, a Hong Kong avant-garde theatre and dance company, and calls into question the relationship between culture and politics during the last years of British colonial rule. Through both fieldwork and textual analysis, the author explores the double-bind tensions between Chinese and Western aesthetic forms, while examining identity and gender within representation as part of the dramatization of an increasingly uncertain present. Incorporating insights from cultural studies, feminism, anthropology, and queer theory, this imaginative unpacks current debates over “Hong Kong identity” through the kaleidoscope of avant-garde theatre performances.For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico.
Rozanna Lilley is currently assistant professor in the recently established Cultural Studies Programme at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is working on a new book entitled “Reclaimed Land: Essays on Culture and History in Chinese Hong Kong and Macau.”
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