2. The Transmutable Monkey: Between Theater and Fiction in Traditional China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Contents VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Who Is Sun Wukong? The Image of the Monkey King in Journey to the West 15
7. 2. The Transmutable Monkey: Between Theater and Fiction in Traditional China 36
8. 3. From Trickster to Hero: National Mythmaking in Wartime and Maoist China 60
9. 4. From Fighter to Lover: The Postsocialist Hero in the PRC and Hong Kong 91
10. 5. Chronotope and Orientalism: Time Travel between China and America 119
11. 6. Of Monkey, Human, and God: The Performance of Asian American Identity 135
12. Conclusion 169
13. Notes 175
14. Selected Bibliography 195
15. Index 215