Endearing Empress Cixi : re-empowering Asian identities and re-evaluating western ideologies in Dick Lee’s "Forbidden city : portrait of an empress".

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ho, Terence Kin Wai.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Singapore
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50199
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This essay explores the dilemmas behind Empress Cixi’s personality, as well as the underlying relationship and tension between the East and the West. In his musical, Lee sets out to challenge the pre-conceived notions of Empress Cixi as a Dragon Lady who ruled China with an iron fist and eventually...