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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital - The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell's Palace (Paperback)
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital - The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell's Palace (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
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"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a
darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will
be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban
China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and
politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the
forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of
everyday people in contemporary China. This volume collects
together the three plays in the series, including Cowhig's
exploration of the human cost of development in China's socialist
market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness), of justice and
revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in
Midsummer), and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the
AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell's Palace). In addition
to Cowhig's plays, the volume includes a host of supplemental
materials including an editorial preface and three (previously
published) brief essays responding to each play by the editor,
Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by theatre/performance
scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores the key themes in
Cowhig's body of work; a summary discussion between Cowhig,
Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig's process and the political and
aesthetic currents animating her work. The World of Extreme
Happiness: "Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig
forces us down the long hard look path" (Independent) Snow in
Midsummer: "Gripping and affecting... graceful and impassioned"
(Times) The King of Hell's Palace: "A medical-scandal drama that we
can't afford to ignore" (Telegraph)
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