Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. - Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000

Thanks to Mark Dudgeon, Emily Hockley and the editorial and production teams at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Thanks to the series editors and the readers, Patrick Lonergan and Erin Hurley. Thanks to the Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University, the College of Communication and Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.

Thanks to the Association for Asian Performance. We are duly grateful to Girish Karnad, Claire Conceison, Meng Jinghui, the Tsubouchi Shoyo Theatre Museum and Library at Waseda University. Thanks to Kim Tran and Khai Thu Nguyen for their help on Vietnamese theatre. Thanks to our colleagues, friends and teachers in the Association for Asian Performance, and the many fine scholars whose work paved the way: J. Thomas Rimer, Richard Nichols, Samuel Leiter, Donald Keene, Colin Mackerras, M. Cody Poulon, David G. Goodman, Evan Darwin Winet, Kathy Foley, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Brian Powell, Jonah Salz, Ah-jeong Kim, Mariko Boyd, Catharine Diamond and Laurence Kominz.

Thanks to our spouses and families for the support, encouragement and understanding Guoping Ma, Lacy Wetmore and Shanker Satyanath.

General Asian Theatre

Bowers, Faubion, Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama . New York: Grove, 1956.

, Brandons Guide to Theater in Asia . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1976.

, The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

, Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre . Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific. London: Routledge, 1998.

Scott, A. C., The Theatre in Asia . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.

Japanese Theatre

The Aesthetics of Quietude: ta Shgo and the Theatre of Investiture . Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2006.

Cavaye, Ronald, Paul Griffith and Akihiko Senda. A Guide to the Japanese Stage: From Traditional to Cutting Edge . Tokyo: Kodansha, 2004.

Downer, Lesley, Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Bewitched the West . New York: Gotham Books, 2003.

Eckersall, Peter, Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 19602000 . Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Fukushima, Yoshiko, Manga Discourse in Japanese Theatre . London: Keegan Paul, 2003.

Goodman, David G. (ed.), After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

, Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of the Gods . Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1988.

Hane Mikiso and Louis G. Perez, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey . 5th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2013.

Havens, Thomas R. H., Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theatre and the Visual Arts, 19551980 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

, Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance . Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2006.

Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism . New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Kawamura Takeshi, Nippon Wars and Other Plays . London: Seagull, 2011.

Dawn to the West: Volume 4: Poetry, Drama and Criticism . New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Kikuchi Kan, History and Trends of Modern Japanese Literature . Trans. S. Sakabe. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1936.

, Mishima on Stage: The Black Lizard and Other Plays . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2007.

Land of Volcanic Ash . Trans. David G. Goodman. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Center, 1993.

, Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 19451952 . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.

Miller, J. Scott, Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theatre . Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Mishima, Yukio, Five Modern No Plays . Trans. Donald Keene. Tokyo: Charles Tuttle, 1957.

, My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima . New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Osanai Kaorus Dilemma: Amateurism by Professionals in Modern Japanese Theatre, The Drama Review , Vol. 49, no. 1 (2005), pp.11933.

yama Isao, Kindai Nihon Giyoku Shi , Vol. I, Yamagata: Kindai Nihon Gikyoku Shi Kank Kai, 1969.

Poulton, M. Cody, Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyka . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 2001.

A Beggars Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 19001930 . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010.

Powell, Brian, Kabuki in Modern Japan: Mayama Seika and His Plays . New York: St. Martins Press, 1990.

Japans Modern Theatre: A Century of Continuity and Change . London: Japan Library, 2002.

Ridgely, Steven C., Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shji . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre: Kishida Kunio . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Robertson, Jennifer, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Rolf, Robert T. and John K. Gillespie (eds), Alternative Japanese Drama. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

Senda Akihiko, Performing Arts Now in Japan: Trends in Contemporary Japanese Theatre. New York: Japan Foundation, n.d.

, The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre . Trans. J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Shields, Nancy K., Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe . New York: Weatherhill, 1996.

Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shji and Postwar Japan . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Takaya, Ted T., Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology . New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Japanese Music and Drama in the Meiji Era . Trans. Donald Keene, Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 1956.

Images of Armageddon: Japans 1980s Theatre Culture. TDR, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2000), pp.8596.

A History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914 . Leiden: Global Oriental, 2012.

Chinese Theatre

Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract . Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

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Chen, Baichen and Dong Jian (eds), Zhongguo xiandai xiju shigao ( A Draft History of Modern Chinese Drama ). 2nd ed. Beijing: Zhongguo xiju chubanshe, 2008.

Chen, Xiaomei, Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.

Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama . New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Chen Yun, Nianqing de yidai (The Young Generation), Juben , No. 8 (1963), pp.4268.

Sangshuping jishi (Sangshuping Chronicles), Juben , No. 4 (1988), pp.428.

Cheung, Martha P. Y. and Jane C. C. Lai (eds), An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Conceison, Claire, Significant Other: Staging the American in China . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Zhuni jiankang (To Your Health), Juben, No. 11 (1963), pp.243.

Cui Dezhi, Baochunhua (Winter Jasmine), Juben , No. 2 (1979), pp.240.

Liu Lianying, Renmin wenxue , No. 4 (1955), pp.6581.

Cui Dezhi, et al., Saturday Afternoon at the Mill and Other One-Act Plays . Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1957.

Reflected and Refracted: Metatheatrics in Taiwan, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism , Vol. 9, No. 2 (1995), pp.8596.

Dong Jian and Hu Xingliang, Zhongguo dangdai xiju shigao, 19492000 ( A Draft History of Contemporary Chinese Drama ). Beijing: Zhongguo xiju chubanshe, 2008.

Bei yiwangle de shiqing (Something Forgotten), Juben , No. 1 (1957), pp.315.

Ebon, Martin (ed.), Five Chinese Communist Plays . New York: John Day Co, 1975.

Fang Zixun and Tian Benxiang (eds), Xianggang huaju xuan ( Selected Spoken Drama Plays of Hong Kong ). Beijing: Wenhua yishu chubanshe, 1994.