Tarryn Li-Min Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation, Transliteration, and Character Sets Introduction Thinking Chinese Theater through Technicity Chapter 1 Mobilizing Illumination: Lighting, Scenography, and Affective Arousal in Early HuajuChapter 2 Dramaturgical Technologies: Engineering Atmosphere in the First Golden Age of HuajuChapter 3 Socialist Utopian Special Effects: Technological Fantasy on the Seventeen-Years StageChapter 4 Model Ingenuity: Technical Mentality and Practicality in Cultural Revolution YangbanxiChapter 5 Theater as Technoscience: Research, Design, and Nuclear Physics on the Post-Mao Stage CodaNotesBibliographyIndex

“Illuminates 20th century Chinese theater from a previously unexplored perspective . . . Drawing on a range of previously untapped original sources, the book not only provides new understandings of Chinese theater technology, but also elucidates how that technology affected the work of playwrights and the scripts they produced.”

Tarryn Li-Min Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation, Transliteration, and Character Sets Introduction Thinking Chinese Theater through Technicity Chapter 1 Mobilizing Illumination: Lighting, Scenography, and Affective Arousal in Early HuajuChapter 2 Dramaturgical Technologies: Engineering Atmosphere in the First Golden Age of HuajuChapter 3 Socialist Utopian Special Effects: Technological Fantasy on the Seventeen-Years StageChapter 4 Model Ingenuity: Technical Mentality and Practicality in Cultural Revolution YangbanxiChapter 5 Theater as Technoscience: Research, Design, and Nuclear Physics on the Post-Mao Stage CodaNotesBibliographyIndex

“Illuminates 20th century Chinese theater from a previously unexplored perspective . . . Drawing on a range of previously untapped original sources, the book not only provides new understandings of Chinese theater technology, but also elucidates how that technology affected the work of playwrights and the scripts they produced.”

Tarryn Li-Min Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation, Transliteration, and Character Sets Introduction Thinking Chinese Theater through Technicity Chapter 1 Mobilizing Illumination: Lighting, Scenography, and Affective Arousal in Early HuajuChapter 2 Dramaturgical Technologies: Engineering Atmosphere in the First Golden Age of HuajuChapter 3 Socialist Utopian Special Effects: Technological Fantasy on the Seventeen-Years StageChapter 4 Model Ingenuity: Technical Mentality and Practicality in Cultural Revolution YangbanxiChapter 5 Theater as Technoscience: Research, Design, and Nuclear Physics on the Post-Mao Stage CodaNotesBibliographyIndex

“Illuminates 20th century Chinese theater from a previously unexplored perspective . . . Drawing on a range of previously untapped original sources, the book not only provides new understandings of Chinese theater technology, but also elucidates how that technology affected the work of playwrights and the scripts they produced.”