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



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Introduction



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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




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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