Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries Bernard Shaws Bridges to Chinese Culture - Kay Li Kartoniert (TB)

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 i n 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.