Bernard Shaw's Bridges to Chinese Culture

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings.

With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.

Offers a unique reading of Shaw and how his work impacted and was impacted by Chinese culture Engages Shaw with influences, contemporaries, and descendants ranging from Charles Dickens to John Woo Critically analyzes Shaw's legacy in the digital space

Autorentext
Kay Li is Project Leader of the SAGITTARIUSORION Digitizing Project on Bernard Shaw funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Li also serves as Adjunct Professor of English at York University, Canada and as President of Asian Heritage Month-Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. One of the founding members of the International Shaw Society, she studies cross-cultural literary encounters and cultural globalization. She is the author of Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters.

Klappentext
'Kay Li's study of Bernard Shaw's relationship with a number of leading Chinese figures and the assimilation of his plays into Chinese culture is a significant addition to her important previous work on Shaw and China. This new book expertly situates Shaw in wide-ranging spheres of Chinese culture, while also demonstrating the complexities of cross-cultural literary relations. It is a major contribution not just to Shaw studies but to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural dialogue.' - L.W. Conolly, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Emeritus Professor of English, Trent University, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK
This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations betweenthe focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings.
With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.

Inhalt
Introduction. The Chinese Angles.- Chapter. 1 Introduction.- Part I. Shaw and his Contemporaries.- Chapter 2. Seeing China.- Chapter 3. Shaw and the Last Chinese Emperor, Henry Pu-Yi Aisin-Gioro.- Chapter 4. Mrs. Warren's Profession and Transnational Chinese Feminism.- Chapter 5. Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant Billions.- Part II. The Contemporaries of Shaw's Works.- Chapter 6. John Woo's My Fair Gentleman and the Evolution of Pygmalion in Contemporary China.- Chapter 7. Chinese Film Adaptations of Shaw's Plays.- Chapter 8. Nobel Laureates Shaw and Gao Xingjian.- Chapter 9. Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and Microblogs.- Chapter 10. Bernard Shaw's Bridges to Chinese Culture.- Bibliography.