Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Performance Spaces in Ancient Chinese Cities: Street Theatres of the 9th Century Capital Chang’an 13
5. The Semi-Circular Theatre in Seleucid and Arsacid Babylon 33
6. The Perspectival Stage in Sebastiano Serlio’s Second Book of Architecture (1545) and its German Reception in the Context of Wohlstand 47
7. Central Perspective in Catholic Churches and on Stage in Europe between the 15th and 17th Centuries 91
8. Notable Spectacles in the Late 19th-Century Kabuki Stage 103
9. Berlin and its Theatres between 1870 and 1890 111
10. The Theatres in Modern Shanghai: From the Perspective of Cultural History 123
11. Discussions on Theatre Spaces and Theatre Materials by the Leningrad School 133
12. Projection Technology and the Theatre Stage: Light, Space, Body Politics 143
13. Cultural Techniques of Play: A Global Perspective 157
14. Contributors 171