Taiwanese Jingju Performances Featuring Women's Writing: Meng Xiaodong and The Ghostdom River

Hsin-Chun Tuan

doi:10.1353/atj.2015.0031

Taiwanese Jingju Performances Featuring Women's Writing: Meng Xiaodong and The Ghostdom River

Hsin-Chun Tuan

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Abstract

This essay examines the ways in which two Taiwanese women playwrights used jingju in their recent works. Wang An-Chi's Meng Xiaodong featured actress Wei Hai-Ming telling the autobiography of the eponymous twentieth-century actress. Wu Ming-Lun's The Ghostdom River adapted the traditional story of Yin Yang River, exploring the female character's complex personal situation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	556-565
Number of pages	10
Journal	Asian Theatre Journal
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2015.0031
State	Published - 1 Sep 2015

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