Creative Re-creation in Cultural Migration

Creative Re-creation in Cultural Migration

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Lady Precious Stream by Shih-I Hsiung was the lycogel first successful West End play by a Chinese playwright.Based on a traditional Chinese opera but with many changes, the play had an enormous appeal to the modern audience in the West.This paper argues that the play is essentially an ingenious re-creation in which Hsiung has undertaken a combination of three roles: translating the original into English; adapting it to the English theatrical practice while maintaining the Chinese convention; and re-writing some of the details.

Hsiung is thus apac1/60/1/cw able to keep the original cultural elements with sensitivity to the taste, convention, and ethical values of the targeted audience, transforming the ancient Chinese opera into a modern English-language play.Lady Precious Stream reveals the evolution and mutation of literary products that cross cultural and geographical boundaries as well as the significant role a writer may play in transcultural exchanges.