Su tseng chang biography of william shakespeare
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Kaohsiung
By Sonia Su
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Introduction
The following text introduces four long-time residents of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, as they live through the Covid pandemic. In conversations conducted via Zoom and Line messaging app, they discuss the effects on their daily routines and work responsibilities, how they keep informed of the latest news and updates domestically and globally, and their thoughts on government actions, especially compared to the SARS outbreak. While the younger respondents reported having few memories of SARS, which left 73 dead in Taiwan, the retired elementary school teacher recalls exercising similar precautions during that period. Yet, there is a sense among all respondents that this global pandemic has already had far more dire consequences.
Nevertheless, being just 81 miles off the coast of China and expected to have the second highest number of cases, Taiwan has been praised by government and business leaders, media, and observers around the world for its relatively successful prevention and control efforts. As of May 2, , Taiwan has confirmed cases and six deaths, with 20 consecutive days of no local cases and counting. Before May 1, Taiwan had six successive days of zero new cases—leading many, including these respondents,
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Acknowledgements
Foreword by Wilt L. Idema, Harvard University
Introduction by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, Shih-pe Wang
1 Setting the scene: playwrights and localities
The backdrop of regional theatre to Tang Xianzu’s drama, Yongming Xu
Stratford-upon-Avon: , Paul Edmondson
2 Classics, tastes and popularity
The ‘popular turn’ in the elite theatre of the Ming after Tang Xianzu: Love, dream and deaths in The Tale of the West Loft, Wei Hua
Blockbusters and popular stories, Nick Walton
3 Making history
Shishiju as public forum: The Crying Phoenix and the dramatization of contemporary political affairs in late Ming China, Ayling Wang
Dramatizing the Tudors, Helen Cooper
4 The state and the theatre
Sixty plays from the Ming Palace, –18, Tian Yuan Tan
Licensing the King’s Men: From court revels to public performance, Janet Clare
5 The circulation of dramatic texts and printing
Tired, sick, and looking for money: Zang Maoxun in , Stephen H. West
Status anxiety: Arguing about plays and print in early modern London, Jason Scott-Warren
6 Dramatic authorship and collaboration
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