Chang yu sheng biography of william shakespeare

Shakespeare or Sha-Shi-biya 莎士比亞 is having a Renaissance in China. His Stratford-upon-Avon home is being rebuilt in the Jiangxi province in San Weng (‘Three Masters’) alongside those of Cervantes and Tang Xianzu, the government styled ‘Shakespeare of the East’. Xi Jinping, on his state visit to the United Kingdom received Shakespeare’s sonnets from the Queen and quoted The Tempest in Parliament, promising ‘what’s past’ to be ‘prologue’. Earlier that year, the British government put £million into the Royal Shakespeare Company translating Shakespeare’s Complete Works into Mandarin. What is behind Shakespeare’s role in British-Sino relations&#;?

Washington D.C’s Folger Library has tacitly answered that China’s emphasis on its relationship with Shakespeare ‘could be viewed as a marketing decision by the Chinese government, in an attempt to exert China’s ‘soft power’ in the world.’ The Economist has taken the same line, pointing to the events across c

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Shakespeare across the Taiwan Strait: A Developmental Perspective

Authors

• Yu Sun Assistant researcher in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
• Longhai Zhang Professor in Min Nan Normal University, Zhangzhou and the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China

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Keywords:

Shakespeare Studies, China, Mainland, Taiwan, Shake-xiqu

Abstract

Shakespeare studies in Mainland China and Taiwan evolved from the same origin during the two centuries after Shakespeare being introduced into China in the early nineteenth century. Although Shakespeare was first seen on the Taiwan stage in the Japanese language during the colonial period, it was after Kuomintang moved to Taiw

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The translation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays in China / (Übersetzung und Rezeption von Shakespeares Dramen in China)

Qixin, He. " The translation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays in China / (Übersetzung und Rezeption von Shakespeares Dramen in China)". 3. Teilband, edited bygd Harald Kittel, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, , pp.

Qixin, H. (). The translation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays in China / (Übersetzung und Rezeption von Shakespeares Dramen in China). In H. Kittel (Ed.), 3. Teilband (pp. ). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Qixin, H. The translation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays in China / (Übersetzung und Rezeption von Shakespeares Dramen in China). In: Kittel, H. ed. 3. Teilband. Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter Mouton, pp.

Qixin, He. " The translation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays in China / (Übersetzung und Rezeption von Shakespeares Dramen in China)" In 3. Teilband edited by Harald Kittel, Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter Mouton,