Cross-Gender China

<p><em>Cross-Gender China</em> the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China.</p><p></p><p>The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender <i>nandan </i>performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life.</p>