Isbn: 9780295743196 - transforming monkey: adaptation and representation of a chinese epic (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) and lives on in literature and popular culture internationally. In this far-ranging study Hongmei Sun discusses the thousand-year evolution of this figure in imperial China and multimedia adaptations in Republican, Maoist, and post-socialist China and the United States, including the film Princess Iron Fan (1941), Maoist revolutionary operas, online creative writings influenced by Hong Kong film A Chinese Odyssey (1995), and Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese.At the intersection of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, film studies, and translation and adaptation studies, Transforming Monkey provides a renewed understanding of the Monkey King character as a rebel and trickster, and demonstrates his impact on the Chinese self-conception of national identity as he travels through time and across borders.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorHongmei Sun is assistant professor of modern and classical languages at George Mason University.KlappentextrnrnHongmei Sun is assistant professor of modern and classical lang.