China Reinterpreted: Staging The Other In Muromachi Noh Theater

This book is a comprehensive study of Chinese figures and motifs in medieval Japanese noh theater. It explores the images of China and their implications constructed in the so-called "karagoto-mono" (Chinese plays) that reflect the artistic preferences, as well as the cultural and sociopolitical sentiments towards China held by Muromachi noh artists and audiences.

• | Author: Leo Shingchi Yip
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 230 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498520588
• | ISBN-13: 9781498520584