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Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (review)

Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (review) 182 Book Reviews traditional performance or the role of the woman warrior in Chinese litera- ture and popular culture. Bradford Clark Bowling Green State University BERNARD SHAW AND CHINA: CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS. By Kay Li. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xviii + 285 pp. Cloth $59.95. In 1933, Bernard Shaw went to China during his world tour. It is not diffi cult to recognize what seems to be a global commonplace—that cultural celeb- rities travel well, as do their ideas and texts. What is challenging is how to think thorny issues of cross-cultural encounters through this phenomenon productively. Kay Li’s book is a study of Shaw’s “comic cultural disconnects” with modern China (1). Li sets herself the task to trace Shaw’s “passage to China” through its two paradoxes: “No matter how much the people of China had wanted to meet Xiao Bo-na [Bernard Shaw] in person, he had never intended such an encounter. . . . On the other hand, over time the Chinese have managed to reach Xiao Bo-na” (3). The loosely organized eight chapters of the book attempt to cover a vast ground: Shaw’s fi rst visit to China, Chinese- inspired characters in Shaw’s own plays and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (review)

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University of Hawai'I Press
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182 Book Reviews traditional performance or the role of the woman warrior in Chinese litera- ture and popular culture. Bradford Clark Bowling Green State University BERNARD SHAW AND CHINA: CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS. By Kay Li. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xviii + 285 pp. Cloth $59.95. In 1933, Bernard Shaw went to China during his world tour. It is not diffi cult to recognize what seems to be a global commonplace—that cultural celeb- rities travel well, as do their ideas and texts. What is challenging is how to think thorny issues of cross-cultural encounters through this phenomenon productively. Kay Li’s book is a study of Shaw’s “comic cultural disconnects” with modern China (1). Li sets herself the task to trace Shaw’s “passage to China” through its two paradoxes: “No matter how much the people of China had wanted to meet Xiao Bo-na [Bernard Shaw] in person, he had never intended such an encounter. . . . On the other hand, over time the Chinese have managed to reach Xiao Bo-na” (3). The loosely organized eight chapters of the book attempt to cover a vast ground: Shaw’s fi rst visit to China, Chinese- inspired characters in Shaw’s own plays and

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Asian Theatre Journal – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Apr 1, 2009

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