"A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia. Focusing on five different kinds of theatre troupes from China and their respective travels in Singapore, Bangkok, Malaya and Hong Kong, Zhang examines their different travelling experiences and divergent cultural practices. She thus sheds light on how transnational mobility was embodied, practised and circumscribed in the course of troupes' travelling, sojourning and interacting with diasporic communities. These troupes communicated diverse discourses and ideologies influences by different social political movements in China, and these meanings were further altered by transmission. By unpacking multiple ways of performing Chineseness that was determined by changing time-space constructions, this volume provides valuable insight for scholars of the Chinese Diaspora, Transnational History and Performing Arts in Asia"--
A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia.
Focusing on five different kinds of theatre troupes from China and their respective travels in Singapore, Bangkok, Malaya and Hong Kong, Zhang examines their different travelling experiences and divergent cultural practices. She thus sheds light on how transnational mobility was embodied, practised and circumscribed in the course of troupes travelling, sojourning and interacting with diasporic communities. These troupes communicated diverse discourses and ideologies influenced by different social political movements in China, and these meanings were further altered by transmission.
By unpacking multiple ways of performing Chineseness that was determined by changing time-space constructions, this volume provides valuable insight for scholars of the Chinese Diaspora, Transnational History and Performing Arts in Asia.
Introduction
Part I Chinese theatre troupes on the Sino-Southeast Asian Corridor,
1900s1930s
1 Formation of Chinese theatrical spaces: temples, theatres and amusement
parks in the Straits Settlements
2 Travelling with Teochew immigrants: Chaozhou theatre troupes on the move
3 Performative encounters: Chinas Song and Dance Troupe and the Nanyang
tour
4 Saving the motherland: diasporic Nationalism and Mobilisation of Chinese in
Malaya during WWII
Part II 'Dangerous' reaching out via performative linkages in the Cold War
5 Old ties and new routes: socialist Chaozhou theatre in Hong Kong,
1950s1960s
6 Chaozhou opera film nexuses: Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok, 1960s
7 Appropriating postcolonial Chineseness: Hong Kong leftwing troupes in Cold
War Singapore and Malaya(sia)
8 Conclusion and epilogue
Beiyu Zhang obtained her PhD from the History department at the National University of Singapore. She worked as Post-doctoral Fellow, funded by the Macau Talent Program at the University of Macau, from 2018 to 2020. Now she is affiliated with the Jinan University, Guangzhou. Her research interests include cultural history, Chinese diaspora, theatre and performances, and Cold War culture.
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