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Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the
relationship between the city and performance from an Asian
perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new
conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of
city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city
performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond.
The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong
Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and
multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate
how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space
that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It
situates inter-Asian relationality and inter-city referencing as
centrally significant dynamics in the exploration of the material
and ideological conditions of contemporary performance and
performance exchange in Asia. This study captures creative dialogue
that travels city-based pathways along the Hong Kong-Singapore
route, as well as between Hong Kong and Singapore and other cities,
through scholarly analyses and practitioner reflections drawn from
the fields of theatre, performance, and music. This book combines
essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies,
ethnomusicology, and human geography with reflective accounts by
Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to
highlight the diversity, vibrancy, and complexity of creative
projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and
nationhood through strategies of collaborative conviviality and
transnational mobility across multi-sited networks of cities in
Asia. In doing so, this volume fills a considerable gap in global
scholarly discourse on performance and the city and on the
production and circulation of the performing arts in Asia.
Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the
relationship between the city and performance from an Asian
perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new
conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of
city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city
performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond.
The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong
Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and
multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate
how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space
that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It
situates inter-Asian relationality and inter-city referencing as
centrally significant dynamics in the exploration of the material
and ideological conditions of contemporary performance and
performance exchange in Asia. This study captures creative dialogue
that travels city-based pathways along the Hong Kong-Singapore
route, as well as between Hong Kong and Singapore and other cities,
through scholarly analyses and practitioner reflections drawn from
the fields of theatre, performance, and music. This book combines
essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies,
ethnomusicology, and human geography with reflective accounts by
Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to
highlight the diversity, vibrancy, and complexity of creative
projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and
nationhood through strategies of collaborative conviviality and
transnational mobility across multi-sited networks of cities in
Asia. In doing so, this volume fills a considerable gap in global
scholarly discourse on performance and the city and on the
production and circulation of the performing arts in Asia.
This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It
explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and
international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture,
identity and belonging, and transnational 'Chineseness'.
Collectively, the essays look at how notions of 'British Chinese
culture' have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts,
theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They
contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not
only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and
political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of
Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion;
the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and
dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a
fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical
contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst
critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.
This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It
explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and
international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture,
identity and belonging, and transnational 'Chineseness'.
Collectively, the essays look at how notions of 'British Chinese
culture' have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts,
theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They
contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not
only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and
political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of
Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion;
the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and
dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a
fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical
contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst
critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.
This book details the history of Chinese theatre, and British
representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a
250-year period. A wide range of performance case studies - from
exhibitions and British Chinese opera inspired theatre, to
translations of Chinese plays and visiting troupes - highlight the
evolving nature of Sino-British trade, fashion, migration, the
formation of diaspora, and international relations. Collectively,
they outline the complex relationship between Britain and China -
the rise and fall of the British Empire, and the fall and rise of
China - as it was played out on the stages of London across three
centuries. Drawing extensively upon archival materials and
fieldwork research, the book offers new insights for intercultural
British theatre in the 21st century - 'the Asian century'.
This book details the history of Chinese theatre, and British
representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a
250-year period. A wide range of performance case studies - from
exhibitions and British Chinese opera inspired theatre, to
translations of Chinese plays and visiting troupes - highlight the
evolving nature of Sino-British trade, fashion, migration, the
formation of diaspora, and international relations. Collectively,
they outline the complex relationship between Britain and China -
the rise and fall of the British Empire, and the fall and rise of
China - as it was played out on the stages of London across three
centuries. Drawing extensively upon archival materials and
fieldwork research, the book offers new insights for intercultural
British theatre in the 21st century - 'the Asian century'.
Ceramics is one of the most vibrant and engaging fields of
contemporary British art. This lavishly illustrated book reviews
the work of twenty-two artists and celebrates their contribution to
its rich landscape. Written from a collector's point of view, it
explores what contemporary ceramic objects can mean, what emotions
they evoke and how artists draw upon different facets of the art
and crafts worlds in their work. A vital visual and critical
resource, Contemporary British Ceramics showcases British ceramics
as a compelling interdisciplinary practice, attuned to the
contemporary world. Featuring more than 280 images, it encourages
readers to look beneath the surface, to discover the vibrant
contribution that British ceramics makes to the broad field of
contemporary art.
* First collection of full-length plays from British East Asian
playwrights * Ideal for schools, colleges and theatre companies *
In association with a conference at Tara Theatre and Goldsmiths
University in Spring 2018 A landmark collection of contemporary
full-length plays by British East Asian writers. Exploring subjects
such as cultural identity, the fragmentation of communities,
tradition, invisibility and discrimination, these plays are ideal
to perform. With an introduction by academics Dr Amanda Rogers and
Dr Ashley Thorpe, which sets the plays into context and explores
the hidden history of theatre from the BEA community. BOUND FEET
BLUES by Yang-May Ooi THE LAST DAYS OF LIMEHOUSE by Jeremy Tiang
JAMAICA BOY by Stephen Hoo CONVERSATIONS WITH MY UNKNOWN MOTHER by
Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen SPECIAL OCCASIONS by Amy Ng TANGO by Joel Tan
THE FU MANCHU COMPLEX by Daniel York Loh
Pots have existed across the world and in different cultures for
thousands of years. This volume explores how contemporary makers
use the ancient language of the pot to convey contemporary ideas,
from the sculptural and painterly to the ecological and satirical.
This beautifully produced book is a visually rich and critically
in-depth focus on the work of twenty-four potters. A companion
volume to Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface, it
reveals how pots can be extraordinarily powerful forms of
expression.
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