New Book Announcement: “Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital”
Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China.
This volume collects together the three plays in the series: Cowhig’s exploration of the human cost of development in China’s socialist market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness); of justice and revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in Midsummer); and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell’s Palace).
In addition to Cowhig’s plays, the volume contains an editorial preface and essays responding to each play by the editor, Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores key themes in Cowhig’s work; and a discussion between Cowhig, Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig’s process and the political and aesthetic currents animating her work.
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