Introduction

Abstract

This book, in the theoretical translocality, illuminates contemporary intercultural theater, Asian performance—Hakka, dance, Chinese musical, and Asian film (including the two 2017 Golden Horse Awards winners). More than fourteen case studies are explored, including CLT’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016), Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet (2015), To Send Away Under Escort (2015), Hakka musical My Daughter’s Wedding (2007), Hakka TV drama The Ninth Sister of Yang (2009), the film My Native Land (1980), Neo-Classic Dance Company’s “The Drifting Fate of Hakka” (2014), the music concert (2015), the Chinese musical Mulan (2011), Jolin and Pao’s PK (2015), Hakka musical Xiangsi Nostalgia (2016), the musical Mountains and Seas (restaged 2017), the black-and-white film The Great Buddha+ (2017), and the film The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful (2017).