-
Founders of the Field: China Introduction
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 28, Number 2, Fall 2011
- pp. 409-413
- 10.1353/atj.2011.0027
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
From the 1930s to the 1980s political circumstances in China limited American access to information about Chinese theatre. In this era Englishman A. C. Scott and Australian Colin Mackerras became major scholars documenting changes taking place and theatre practice they saw, creating a foundation for current scholarship on Chinese performance.