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SUMMARY:Dreaming With China: Chinoiserie and Musical Comedy
DESCRIPTION:\n	Wendy Gan (Associate Professor\, School of English\, Univers
 ity of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow in Residence)
 \n	Chair/Discussant: David Porter (Professor\, English Language and Litera
 ture Department\, University of Michigan)\n\n	Co-sponsored by the Fairbank
  Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	Chinoiserie has been called many things 
 but rarely and openly comic. The adjectives that are commonly attached to 
 it – playful\, amusing\, whimsical\, fantastic\, droll – skirt round t
 he idea but leave the comic strain in chinoiserie submerged. This talk sug
 gests that what we see expressed in chinoiserie is a tension between disor
 der and an underlying order\, a tension that is congruent with the structu
 res of comedy where disruptions are ultimately happily resolved. \n\n	 \
 n\n	This structural affinity to comedy makes chinoiserie particularly amen
 able to a comedic treatment\, particularly on the stage. Though theatrical
  chinoiserie in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries tended to incline
  towards epic and heroic tragedy\, my contention is that\, on stage\, chin
 oiserie’s natural home is in the genre of comedy\, specifically in the m
 usical comedy of the late nineteenth century. Musical comedy takes chinois
 erie and spins creative\, pluralising\, desirable dreams of China from it\
 , and in so doing\, offers a vision of the possibilities of cross-cultural
  harmony.
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