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This book presents a nuanced, revisionist exploration of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese theatre and related arts, challenging the conventional demarcations between Republican, high socialist, and post-socialist periods. It discloses subtle entanglements in theatre theory and practice, underscoring the persistent approaches to aesthetics and politics across eras and theatrical genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Imperial China is, in some sense, also the history of women crossing borders, sacrificing themselves to protect their homeland from "barbarian" attacks. Chinese theatre has no shortage of plays featuring such heroic characters. Daphne P. Lei's Uncrossing the Borders carefully examines the long-held appeal of border-crossing drama on the Chinese stage through the lenses of gender and (trans)nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]