Nuo Altar Theatre on a Liminal/Liminoid Continuum: Reflections on the Shamanic Origins of Chinese Theatre

Zhao, Xiaohuan

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00835

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Nuo Altar Theatre on a Liminal/Liminoid Continuum: Reflections on the Shamanic Origins of Chinese Theatre

Xiaohuan Zhao

Xiaohuan Zhao is Senior Lecturer in Chinese literature and theatre at the University of Sydney in Australia and Distinguished Overseas Professor at the Institute of Theatre and Theatrical Relics of Shanxi Normal University in China. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and the University of Otago in New Zealand. He publishes extensively in the fields of traditional Chinese culture and literature with a specialist focus on religion and theatre. His most recent book is Drama, Fiction and Folk Belief: Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture from an Overseas Perspective (Fudan University Press, 2018). He is currently engaged in a Routledge book project on the history of Chinese temple theatre. [email protected]

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Xiaohuan Zhao

Xiaohuan Zhao is Senior Lecturer in Chinese literature and theatre at the University of Sydney in Australia and Distinguished Overseas Professor at the Institute of Theatre and Theatrical Relics of Shanxi Normal University in China. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and the University of Otago in New Zealand. He publishes extensively in the fields of traditional Chinese culture and literature with a specialist focus on religion and theatre. His most recent book is Drama, Fiction and Folk Belief: Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture from an Overseas Perspective (Fudan University Press, 2018). He is currently engaged in a Routledge book project on the history of Chinese temple theatre. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2019

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (2 (242)): 57–77.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00835

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The rite of exorcism known as nuo lies at the very heart of the relationship between ritual and drama in Chinese theatre history. Nuo altar theatre exemplifies the relationship between ritual and drama as dynamic and interactive, with ritual engendering theatre and theatre enriching ritual.

2019

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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