The theatrical imagining of diasporic modernity in Shih-I Hsiung's Lady Precious Stream
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qingquan Qiao (0009-0007-8303-575X) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 845-858 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2020.1762709 |
| OpenAlex | W3028049232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Lady Precious Stream (1934) is an English spoken drama adapted from Peking Opera by the Chinese British writer Shih-I Hsiung. Its commercial success in the Anglo American context during the 1930s is often seen as a result of its expression of the Chinese diasporic voice. This article explores the nature of this expression by situating the play within two processes of transcultural practice: first, the translation of the form of spoken drama from the west to China, and second, British chinoiserie forms of appropriating Chinese culture. The play’s reconfiguration of gender, class, and international relations bears close thematic and ideological affinities with Chinese spoken drama, and thus can be seen as a “national allegory” of modern China. This context of “translated modernity” underwrites the play’s intervention in British chinoiserie discourses and the way it challenges binary thinking about China in Britain
Aesthetics · Allegory · Archaeology · Art · China · Context (archaeology · Drama · Expression (computer science · Ideology · Literature · Modernity · Opera · Political science · Sociology · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Philippine History and Culture · History · Law
Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
The Happy Hsiungs
China and the Victorian Imagination
The China Mystique
Representing China on the Historical London Stage
Performing China on the London Stage
Rescuing History from the Nation
The Uneasy Narrator
Periodizing Modernism
Sinophone studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |