A Korean, an Australian, a Nomad, and a Martial Artist meet on the Tibetan Plateau: Encounters with Foreigners in a Tibetan Comedy from Amdo
This article examines the complex processes by which a Tibetan comedy reaches state-sponsored stages in western China's Qinghai Province. By reflecting on my own participation in a Tibetan sketch comedy for a Tibetan-language, provincial version of the Chunjie wanhui, China Central Television...
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Published in | Journal of folklore research Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 1 - 24 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Indiana University Press
01.09.2018
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Summary: | This article examines the complex processes by which a Tibetan comedy reaches state-sponsored stages in western China's Qinghai Province. By reflecting on my own participation in a Tibetan sketch comedy for a Tibetan-language, provincial version of the Chunjie wanhui, China Central Television's annual New Year's Gala, I examine the Tibetan sketch comedy as a staged vernacular ethnography of a transnational encounter. Juxtaposing Tibetan nomads with characters of Korean and Australian origin, such staged encounters create a productive friction that provides a space for public meditation on politically and culturally sensitive issues central to the negotiation of Tibetanness in the twenty-first century, including cultural preservation and ecological conservation. |
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ISSN: | 0737-7037 1543-0413 |
DOI: | 10.2979/jfolkrese.55.3.01 |