This first-ever biography exploring the life of Ping Chong (1946), successful avant-garde artist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, focuses on his valuable contributions to modern theater. Drawing on primary sources and her own attendance of Chong's productions, the author takes a broad and informative approach to his work as a performer, playwright and director over more than 40 years. His formative connection to Chinese opera is traced through his upbringing as the child of immigrants in New York's Chinatown.

About the Author
Yuko Kurahashi is a professor in the school of theatre and dance at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

Reviews
"Will serve as a useful introductory resource for scholars and classrooms, helping to deepen critical understanding about one of the most important and, unfortunately, overlooked theatre artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...I found myself longing for more."-The Journal of American Drama and Theatre



Book Information
ISBN 9781476674193
Author Yuko Kurahashi
Format Paperback
Page Count 246
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm