This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw
and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to
China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China
through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between
the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western
culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused,
multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic
moments that favor cross-cultural readings.
With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in
China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the
digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese
lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and
interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure
works alike.