Twenty-First-Century Chinese Drama

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  • ISBN 9781788741309
  • Weight: 620g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2018
  • Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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This anthology is a collection of four contemporary Chinese plays by the playwright Wan Fang, presented in the original Chinese and in English translation. Since the 1990s, modern Chinese drama has experienced a revival, and these plays are representative of the kind of theatre which audiences in China now enjoy. The time is ripe for them to be staged internationally through the medium of translation. This book provides Chinese and English versions consecutively, to enable the plays to be used for study or performance. The volume also offers an introduction to the development of modern Chinese drama over the twentieth century, as a background to the plays included here. In addition, Wan Fang’s own introduction to the writing of plays, and these plays in particular, gives us insights into the mechanisms of writing and staging in a twenty-first-century Chinese context.

Valerie Pellatt is Reader in Chinese Translation and Interpreting in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University. A graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, she holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Edinburgh University. She She has practised as a professional translator and interpreter since the 1980s, and since 2001 has taught conference interpreting, public service interpreting and specialised translation at post-graduate level. Her research interests are translation paratext, Chinese children’s rhymes and poems, and contemporary Chinese drama. Since 2012 she has worked with Chinese-speaking postgraduate students on the translation and performance of eight contemporary Chinese plays by well-known playwrights.