The Interdisciplinary Theatre of Ping Chong

Exploring Curiosity and Otherness on Stage

Yuko Kurahashi author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:30th Jan '20

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This first-ever biography exploring the life of Ping Chong (1946), successful avant-garde artist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, focuses on his valuable contributions to modern theater. Drawing on primary sources and her own attendance of Chong's productions, the author takes a broad and informative approach to his work as a performer, playwright and director over more than 40 years. His formative connection to Chinese opera is traced through his upbringing as the child of immigrants in New York's Chinatown.

“Will serve as a useful introductory resource for scholars and classrooms, helping to deepen critical understanding about one of the most important and, unfortunately, overlooked theatre artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries…I found myself longing for more.”—The Journal of American Drama and Theatre

ISBN: 9781476674193

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: unknown

246 pages