Transnational Chinese Theatres

This is the firstsystematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speakingworld and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. Itinvestigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for theanalysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality ofintercultural performance in East Asia.The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.