Siyuan Liu is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of British Columbia.
"Transforming Tradition offers an excellent example of how a study
of theatre history can include examinations of both textual
products and the practitioner's voice and body, and how such
appraisals can effectively enhance each other. ...Transforming
Tradition is a must-read for educators, researchers, students, and
general readers who are interested in Chinese theatre history,
Chinese cultural studies, theatre historiography, and the interplay
between art and politics."
--Contemporary Theatre Review-- "Contemporary Theatre Review"
"Although the nuancing of vocabulary should serve as a model for
all scholars writing on Chinese theatre in English, Liu's book also
has a quality far too rarely visible in academic publishing:
passion. ...it serves as a model of how to write an engaging
theatre history that involves both art and politics in equal
measure."
--Theatre Survey-- "Theatre Survey"
"...with Transforming Tradition Liu has brought us once again a
tour de force of thoroughly committed, deeply multilayered,
impeccably researched scholarship. His research continues to set
the standard for historical studies of theater and the arts in
modern China."
--The PRC History Review-- "The PRC History Review"
"What is striking about this volume--which details the
transformation of Chinese theater that started before the
Communists took charge and continues still--is that it serves as
the perfect template for all the revisions and changes that have
occurred in the arts in China. Liu's account of this radical reform
is detailed and impressive. Recommended."
--CHOICE-- "CHOICE"
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