TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harry H. Kuoshu
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Lightness of Being in China
T2  - Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1090944
N2  - This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis. Providing insightful contextual overviews supported by the richness of textual details, the study promotes an educated understanding of recent Chinese representation, especially that in cinema.
KW  - National-culture, Social-class discourse, Ideology, Cinematography, Chinese culture
LA  - English
ER  -