Leo Shingchi Yip

China Reinterpreted (eBook, ePUB)

Staging the Other in Muromachi Noh Theater

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

China Reinterpreted is the first comprehensive study on the representation of Chinese figures and motifs in Muromachi Japanese noh theater. Given that China had a strong influence on Japanese culture from the sixth to the early seventeenth centuries, research on Japanese reception of Chinese culture abounds.This book examines how noh theater integrated earlier reception of Chinese culture in various disciplines to produce its reinterpretation of China and Chinese culture on stage. Centering on a group of noh plays that features Chinese characters and motifs, China Reinterpreted explores not only the different means and methods of adaptation, but also the intricate (re)construction of diverse and complex images of China. This studysituates the selected Chinese plays in the context of the dramaturgy and artistic conventions of noh, as well as the sociopolitical stances and artistic preferences of the audiences, and thus highlights the aesthetics, cultural, and sociopolitical agendas of noh theater of the time. By analyzing the various images of China (Japan's cultural Other) staged in Muromachi noh theater, China Reinterpreted offers a case study of the representation of the Other in an intra-Asia context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498520607
• Artikelnr.: 44909799

Autorenporträt

Leo Shingchi Yip is associate professor of Japanese studies at Gettysburg College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Locating China in Noh: The Evolving Dynamics of the Other
and the Self
Chapter 1 - The "Auspicious Other": Celebrating with Chinese Deities in
Seiobo, Tobosaku, and Tsurukame
Chapter 2 - The "Sympathized Other" and the "Distanced Self": Recasting
Legendary Chinese Beauties in Shokun and Yokihi
Chapter 3 - The "Exotic Other": The Spectacular China in Shakkyo andRyoko
Chapter 4 - The "Destructive Other": Threats from China in Haku Rakuten and
Zegai
Chapter 5 - The "Harmonious Other" and the "United Self": The Socially and
Religiously Unified Chinese in Sansho and Tosen
Conclusion - Reinterpreting China, Reinventing China