Transcultural Aesthetics in the Plays of Gao Xingjian

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: International Recognition and National Confusion

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3. Reactive Theater: State Theater and New Voices in China and France

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4. Physical Division: Jingju in Performance and Theory

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5. The Actor in Thirds: Gao’s Theory of Performance

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6. An Individual in the Void: Au bord de la vie

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7. An Individual in Company: Quatre quatuors pour un week-end

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8. An Individual in Night: Ballade Nocturne and Gao’s Philosophical Woman

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9. Conclusion: The Obligation of Creation

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10. Back Matter

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Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate.

• Gao Xingjian
• Transcultural(ism)
• Aesthetics
• Nobel Prize
• Performance
• Identity
• French plays
• aesthetics
• Chinese
• cinema
• culture
• French
• individual
• language
• painting
• paintings
• performance
• philosophy
• play
• theatre

• Colby College, USA

  Todd J. Coulter

Todd Coulter is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at Colby College, USA.

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