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Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (review)

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (review) Book Reviews ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter. West- port, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 1024 pp., 93 halftones. Cloth, $225.00. This work is indeed the very fi rst Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre and as such it will be very useful for the many students of Asian theatre. Because Asian per- formance is so expansive in time and space we can be signifi cantly helped by a comprehensive work such as this. The two-volume work edited by Samuel L. Leiter was published by Greenwood Press in 2007. He was assisted by eight other editorial advisory board members: China (Colin Mackerras [traditional] and Ruru Li [modern]), Japan (Samuel Leiter and John K. Gillespie [mod- ern]), Korea (Richard Nichols), South Asia (Richard A. Frasca [traditional] and Sreenath K. Nair [modern]) and Southeast Asia (Mathew Isaac Cohen [traditional] and Craig Latrell [modern]). This ambitious work was supported by ninety-fi ve contributors. Just looking at the scale of coverage of this work indicates its enormity: Japan, Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Macao, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Brunei, Malay- sia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Listing of selected bibliography takes thirty pages http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (review)

Tsubaki, Andrew Takahisa,.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 26 (1) – Apr 1, 2009
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Book Reviews ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter. West- port, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 1024 pp., 93 halftones. Cloth, $225.00. This work is indeed the very fi rst Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre and as such it will be very useful for the many students of Asian theatre. Because Asian per- formance is so expansive in time and space we can be signifi cantly helped by a comprehensive work such as this. The two-volume work edited by Samuel L. Leiter was published by Greenwood Press in 2007. He was assisted by eight other editorial advisory board members: China (Colin Mackerras [traditional] and Ruru Li [modern]), Japan (Samuel Leiter and John K. Gillespie [mod- ern]), Korea (Richard Nichols), South Asia (Richard A. Frasca [traditional] and Sreenath K. Nair [modern]) and Southeast Asia (Mathew Isaac Cohen [traditional] and Craig Latrell [modern]). This ambitious work was supported by ninety-fi ve contributors. Just looking at the scale of coverage of this work indicates its enormity: Japan, Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Macao, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Brunei, Malay- sia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Listing of selected bibliography takes thirty pages

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