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Social Space and Aesthetic Time East Asian Theatre: Transcultural Challenge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2009
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After successfully eliminating the British motorcycle, Japan now threatens the European car industry; it is also rapidly developing advanced industrial techniques that will make much Western plant look like a blacksmith's forge. Is the theatre next? When is East Asian art going to undermine a culturally obsolescent Western aesthetic which is the counterpart, perhaps, of a one-dimensional voluntarist technology?
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