East/west Quartet
Author | : Ping Chong |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559362290 |
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Author | : Ping Chong |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559362290 |
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Author | : Ping Chong |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1559366826 |
For nearly three decades, Ping Chong and his company have written and staged some of the most innovative and arresting examinations of "the Other" on stages in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work more than any other artist has explored the ways Asian cultures have intersected with contemporary American society and throughout history. This volume collects four of his masterworks created over the past decade, including: Deshima (1990), a documentary collage of the history of the West and Japan; Chinoiserie (1995), spans centuries, continents and cultures, where the mysterious East meets the mysterious West; After Sorrow (1997), explores the legacy of war in Vietnam; Pojagi (1999), a poetic documentary on Korea from the sixteenth century to today. The Washington Post has said these works are "like poems in their simplicity and power to evoke . . . -carefully wrought and beautifully designed. "As an artist , I’m an outsider in American society. As an experimental artist, I’m an outsider in the art world. As a person of color, I’m an outsider; as an immigrant, I’m an outsider; as a gay man, I’m an outsider. It’s the position that fate has allotted me, but it’s a valuable postion to be in, because I think every society should have a mirror held to it by the outsider."—Ping Chong, 1999 Ping Chong was born in 1946 and raised in the Chinatown section of New York City. He began his theatrical career with Meredith Monk and later founded his own company in 1975, which later became Ping Chong and Company. It was created to explore the meaning of contemporary theatre and art on a national and international level. He has created over fifty major works for the stage, including Humboldt’s Current, Nosferatu, Kind Ness, and Undesirable Elements. His works have received numerous Obie and Bessie Awards and are performed throughout the world.
Author | : Peter Hessler |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0062206249 |
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions. This unusual perspective distinguishes Strange Stones, which showcases Hessler’s unmatched range as a storyteller. “Wild Flavor” invites readers along on a taste test between two rat restaurants in South China. One story profiles Yao Ming, basketball star and China’s most beloved export, another David Spindler, an obsessive and passionate historian of the Great Wall. In “Dr. Don,” Hessler writes movingly about a small-town pharmacist and his relationship with the people he serves. While Hessler’s subjects and locations vary, subtle but deeply important thematic links bind these pieces—the strength of local traditions, the surprising overlap between apparently opposing cultures, and the powerful lessons drawn from individuals who straddle different worlds.
Author | : Joshua Chambers-Letson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814738397 |
Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic. Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.
Author | : Laurence Raw |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1441108564 |
Examines what adaptation and translation are, and moves towards theorizing both as coherent disciplines.
Author | : David Hair |
Publisher | : Jo Fletcher Books |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1623650151 |
The Moontide is coming. Urte stands on the brink of war. Now three seemingly ordinary people will decide the fate of the world. Urte is divided, its two continents separated by impassable seas. But once every twelve years, the Moontide sees the waters sink to their lowest point and the Leviathan Bridge is revealed, linking east to west for twenty-four short months. The Rondian emperor, overlord of the west, is hell-bent on ruling both continents, and for the last two Moontides he has led armies of battle-magi across the bridge on crusades of conquest, pillaging his way across Antiopa. But the people of the east have been preparing--and, this time, they are ready for a fight. An epic fantasy, rich in intricate plots, intrigue and treachery. Vast forces collide and ordinary people make heart-rending choices that will shake the world.
Author | : Esther Kim Lee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2006-10-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521850517 |
This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.
Author | : David Hair |
Publisher | : Jo Fletcher Books |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784291005 |
Desperate for the next Game of Thrones? Pick up Empress of the Fall for your full-on fix of epic fantasy. The Emperor is dead - long live the Empress! Emperor Constant is dead and his rivals are scrabbling for power - but any misstep could plunge the land, already devastated by the shocking outcome of the Third Crusade, into a calamitous civil war. The Imperial throne is not the only one in jeopardy. Two brothers, imprisoned veterans of the Crusades, finally return home to find their father's kingdom being plundered - but the price of regaining their birthright will have far-reaching implications for the entire empire. In the East, Sultan Salim, peacemaker and visionary ruler, faces his greatest challenge as his people demand an invasion of the West in retribution for the Rondian Crusades And lurking in the darkness, orchestrating both the power struggles and the inevitable conflicts, is a shadowy group threatening to destroy civilisation itself. Once more, Urte stands on the brink of cataclysm.
Author | : David Hair |
Publisher | : Jo Fletcher Books |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784290890 |
'A remarkable series' SFFANZ She's the Empress of the Fall . . . and her empire is falling apart. Represents modern epic fantasy at its best - Fantasy Book Critic Lyra, Queen of Rondelmar, has fought enemies without and within, dealt with grief and loss, embraced forbidden magic, found her father and borne a child - and still it isn't enough. Her enemies are on the march and the Rondian Empire is collapsing. But a more dangerous adversary is out there . . . and he is winning. Ervyn Naxius, amoral genius, has unleashed war on two continents and is now laughing as the world of Urte tears itself apart. Kings and priests dance to his tune and his daemonic followers are spreading through the lands, but still he isn't satisfied. His ultimate goal - absolute control of all life - is finally within his reach . . . Are these the Last Days, when the daemons rise up to claim the world? From snowbound Mollachia to the beleaguered walls of Norostein, from the poisonous court of the new sultan to the deadly intrigues of Pallas, the omens are clear. Only Lyra and a handful of other heretical dwymancers have grasped the true danger - and they won't give up until every last hope is buried . . .
Author | : T. S. Eliot |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0547539703 |
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.