Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film

Iris H. Tuan is Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Tuan’s selected publications include papers published by the Asian Theatre Journal, the Intercultural Theatre: Adaptation and Representation and Western Canon in Taiwan Theatre. Tuan is the recipient of an NCTU Outstanding Research Award.

Introduction.- Methodologies: From Postcolonial Feminism and Creolization toward Translocal.- Part One: Intercultural Theatre in Taiwan.- CLT’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Tradition, Modernity and Translocality.- Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet in Taiwan: Intercultural Representation.- Theatre Represents Literature: Love and Labor in Send Away Under Escort.- Part Two: From Local to Global—Hakka, Dance, Chinese Musical, and Film.- Change of Hakka Opera: Ethnicity and Creation in Hakka Musical and Hakka TV Drama.- Hakka Culture and Image in Film and Performance.- Irresistible Seduction and Translocal Labor of Musical Theatre in Taiwan: From Translation to Multi- Arts.- Spectacle, Adaptation and Sexuality in Chinese Musicals.- The Abject, Murder and Sex in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Great Buddha+.- Sex, Money, Calculating and Manipulative in Politics in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful.- Conclusion.