Imagination and Power (Studies on Dramatic Ideology)

Author: Zhou Ning
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The book begins by exploring the dramatic character of the Boxers, analyzing the ideological significance of theater in specific social and historical contexts. It includes five chapters: starting with the "Stage Connection" of the Boxers, it analyzes the "Theatrical Ideology" of traditional Chinese society, how theater organizes rural public life, and the concepts, values, and modes of thinking it provides for collective identity among the people. It also examines the complex relationship between modern Chinese historiography, historical drama creation, theory, and political power. In each chapter, the author maintains the same research perspective and methodology, the same value orientation and knowledge strategy, focusing on the processes and methods of constructing and deconstructing knowledge and concepts in Western and Chinese theater arts across different eras. Throughout the chapters of the book, the author consistently adheres to the same research perspective and methodology, the same value orientation and knowledge strategy, emphasizing the processes and methods of constructing and deconstructing knowledge and power in Western and Chinese theater arts across different eras, with ideology being a key concept.