The fall issue of Asian Theatre Journal opens with a special section on the 2016 quatercentenary celebration of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, guest edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. The regular issue follows with scholarly articles and reviews, including three emerging scholar articles that offer perspectives from India, Taiwan, and Singapore.
From the Editor
By Siyuan Liu
Special Section: Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare Quatercentenary Celebration
Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare
By Alexa Alice Joubin
Intercultural and Cross-cultural Encounters during the Quatercentenary of Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare
By Mary Mazzilli
Looking for Common Ground: A Thematic Comparison between Tang Xianzu’s and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Imagination
By Letizia Fusini
Engaging Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in the Quest for Self
By Liana Chen
Pansori Hamlet Project: Taroo’s New Pansori Shakespeare for the Local Audience
By Seokhun Choi
Regular Issue Articles
Politics and Tactics in Revolutionary Performance: A Sino-Burmese Arts Troupe in Transnational Circulation
By Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu
Bhuta Kola Ritual Performances: Locating Aesthetics in Collective Memory and Shared Experience
By Meera Baindur, Tapaswi H M
Tradition and Modernity: Two Modern Adaptations of the Chinese Opera Hezhu’s Match
By Shiao-ling Yu
Applying/Contesting the Brechtain “Model”: Calcutta Repertory Theatre’s Galileo Jibon (Life of Galileo)
By Dwaipayan Chowdhury
Performing Intercultural Trauma: State, Land, and Women in Troy, Troy… Taiwan
By Sophia Yashih Liu
Spaces of Citizenship in Contemporary Singaporean Theatre: Staging the 2011 General Election
By Nathan F. Bullock
Plus reviews.
