Gao Xingjian and Chinese experimental theatre

This study focuses on the life and works of Gao Xingjian, a leading Chinese experimental dramatist in post-Mao China, and his zealous search for an alternative theatre in the 1980s. Acclaimed by critics both in China and overseas as the Chinese counterpart of European innovators of avant-garde theatre, Gao has exerted a great impact on the destruction of Socialist realism and Maoist discourses in the political mission of theatre. Gao's experimental theatre is not only one of the earliest attempts to reject the institutionalized spoken-drama theatre which, since the founding of Communist China, has been utilized as the mouth-piece of the Party's politics but also provides an example of welding Western modernism with China's ancient cultural roots.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Zou, Jiping

Contributors dc:contributor

• Graves, Robert B.

• Biography
• Literature, Asian
• Theater

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Zou, Jiping

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9503363
(UMI)AAI9503363

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19827