Endearing Empress Cixi : re-empowering Asian identities and re-evaluating western ideologies in Dick Lee’s "Forbidden city : portrait of an empress".
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...
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Main Author: | Ho, Terence Kin Wai. |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50199 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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