Denationalizing Identities

Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim''s study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

At the height of the Cold War, the "Bambo...