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Table of Contents

From The Editor

Siyuan Liu
p. v
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0021
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Special Issue Section: The Field of Ramlila

A Note on Transliteration

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0022
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Introduction: The Field of Ramlila

Pamela Lothspeich
pp. 3-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0023
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The Story of Ram in Ramlila

pp. 34-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0024
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Old Delhi's Spectacular Lav-Kush Ramlila: Three Pivotal Scenes in Translation

Radhica Ganapathy
pp. 38-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0025
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"Ramayan Gaan" or Singing the Ramayan in West Bengal, Assam, and Bangladesh

Tutun Mukherjee, Saymon Zakaria
pp. 89-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0026
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Community, Artistry, and Storytelling in the Cultural Confluence of Nautanki and Ramlila

Devendra Sharma
pp. 107-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0027
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Reminisces with My Father, A Nautanki and Ramlila Master Artist

Devendra Sharma
pp. 133-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0028
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Kumaoni Ramlila, A Conversation with Himanshu Joshi

Pamela Lothspeich
pp. 142-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0029
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Review-essay: Documenting Ramayan: Leela in Kheriya and In the Shadow of Time

Rustom Bharucha
pp. 159-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0030
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Ritual and Theatrical Performance in Ramdilla

David Mason
pp. 179-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0000
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Lord Ram Plays the Parking Lot: Ramlila in the Diaspora

Afroz Taj, John Caldwell
pp. 200-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0001
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Report: Indonesian Ramayana Festival at Prambanan (2012)

I Nyoman Sedana, Kathy Foley
pp. 228-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0002
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Regular Issue Materials- Exhibition Review

Cosmic Characters: Wood Puppets Of Asia by Annie Reynolds and Michael Schuster (review)

Chesley Cannon
pp. 246-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0003
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Performance Reviews

Pratthana: A Portrait Of Possession by Okada Tosh (review)

David Jortner
pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0004
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Ham Ik (Hamlet) by Eun-seong Kim (review)

Dukhee Cho
pp. 255-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0005
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Book Reviews

Transnational

Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations ed. by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles (review)

Kathy Foley
pp. 260-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0006
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Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia ed. by Josephine Caust (review)

Rabia Zaid
pp. 263-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0007
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China

Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera During the Cultural Revolution by Xing Fan (review)

John B. Weinstein
pp. 267-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0008
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Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy by Emily Wilcox (review)

Ziying Cui
pp. 270-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0009
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Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays transed. by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema, and: Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms transed. by Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West (review)

Iris H. Tuan
pp. 274-277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0010
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Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China by Hsiaot'i Li (review)

Yizhou Huang
pp. 277-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0011
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Cross-Gender China: Across Yin-Yang, Across Cultures, and Beyond Jingju by Huai Bao aka H. B. Dhawa (review)

Chao Guo
pp. 281-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0012
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Japan

The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kōbō by Abe Kōbō (review)

David Jortner
pp. 284-287
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0013
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Performing Kamishibai: An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience by Tara M. McGowan (review)

Cooper Sivara
pp. 287-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0014
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Korea

Salpuri-Chum, A Korean Dance for Expelling Evil Spirits: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of its Artistic Characteristics by Eun-Joo Lee and Yong-Shin Kim (review)

Margaret Coldiron
pp. 290-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0015
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India

Rāmāyaṇa Saṁkṣepaṁ: An Āṭṭaprakāraṁ (Acting Manual) for Depicting the Story of Rāmāyaṇa Through Mudrās in Kūṭiyāṭṭaṁ Theatre by G. Irinjalakuda Venu (review)

Phillip Zarrilli
pp. 293-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0016
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A Socio-Political History Of Marathi Theatre: Thirty Nights by Makarand Sathe (review)

Radhica Ganapathy
pp. 296-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0017
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Southeast Asia

Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit and Contemporary Malaysian Theatre ed. by Charlene Rajendran, Ken Takiguchi, and Carmen Nge (review)

Kathy Foley
pp. 301-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0018
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Puppets and Cities: Articulating Identities in Southeast Asia by Jennifer Goodlander (review)

Annie Katsura Rollins
pp. 304-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0019
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Mak Yong: World Heritage Theatre by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof (review)

Patricia Matusky
pp. 306-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2020.0020
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