Shakespeare and Asia

Jonathan Locke Hart (Ph.D., University of Toronto, English; Ph.D, University of Cambridge, History) Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, is Chair Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Literary Culture and Translation, SJTU; Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University; Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written over 20 books and edited others and contributed book chapters (publishers include OUP, CUP, Champion, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge). With Routledge, he published his first book in 1994 and had two edited collections appear in Routledge Revivals in 2014. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking, and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Jonathan Locke Hart

Introduction

Jonathan Locke Hart

I: On Shakespeare’s Plays






Shakespeare as a Historicist: His Potential Significance in China
Wang Ning




Splitting heres: Shakespeare and the Global Supermarket, here, there, then, and now
Simon C. Estok




Reading the Matured Shakespeare in Taiwan
Francis K. H. So




How to Crack the Ethical Enigma of Sphinx?
Wei Xiaofei




Meta-dramatizing Shakespeare: Playwrights as Code Readers in "Lear is Here," and "Cleopatra and Her Fools"
I-Chun Wang




Carnival over Time: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Zhao Hua




The Window Crossing Spaces: Triple Spaces of the Window in Much Ado about Nothing
Yun-fang Dai




Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the State and Geography of Otherness
Jonathan Locke Hart

II: Shakespeare, the Novel, Opera, Adaptations and Film




William Shakespeare in the Life and Works of Charles Dickens
Kuo-jung Chen




Hamlet in Chinese Opera and the Loss of Ambiguity
Hao Liu




The Ghost of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Féng Xiǎogāng’s The Banquet and Sherwood Hu’s Prince of the Himalayas
Walter S. H. Lim




Is Shakespeare "Translatable"? Cinematic Adaptations by Kozintsev, Kurosawa, and Feng Xiaogang
King-Kok Cheung




Some Adaptations of Shakespeare in Pakistan
Samina Akhtar




Reconsidering Empire as Metaphor in Shakespeare Wallah
Jane Wong Yeang Chui




Adaptation as Translation: The Bard in Bombay

Asma Sayed