Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film

Iris H. Tuan is Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Tuan’s selected publications include papers published by the Asian Theatre Journal, the Intercultural Theatre: Adaptation and Representation and Western Canon in Taiwan Theatre. Tuan is the recipient of an NCTU Outstanding Research Award.

• Introduction.- Methodologies: From Postcolonial Feminism and Creolization toward Translocal.- Part One: Intercultural Theatre in Taiwan.- CLT’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Tradition, Modernity and Translocality.- Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet in Taiwan: Intercultural Representation.- Theatre Represents Literature: Love and Labor in Send Away Under Escort.- Part Two: From Local to Global—Hakka, Dance, Chinese Musical, and Film.- Change of Hakka Opera: Ethnicity and Creation in Hakka Musical and Hakka TV Drama.- Hakka Culture and Image in Film and Performance.- Irresistible Seduction and Translocal Labor of Musical Theatre in Taiwan: From Translation to Multi- Arts.- Spectacle, Adaptation and Sexuality in Chinese Musicals.- The Abject, Murder and Sex in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Great Buddha+.- Sex, Money, Calculating and Manipulative in Politics in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful.- Conclusion.

“Due to the book’s preponderance of case studies and de-emphasis on foundational theories and methodologies, this text feels best suited for graduate students or scholars in related fields looking for specific case studies. Such a rich array of case studies on translocal performance in Taiwan is likely most useful for scholars in performance studies, East Asian studies, and theatre and cinema.” (Annie Katsura Rollins, Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 36 (2), 2019)