Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Asian - General

As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas,...

When decorated war hero Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts. As the two nations negotiate, he is caught in a national scandal.

Based on the true events surrounding the groundbreaking table tennis tournament that marked a decisive new chapter in U S-China relations, PING PONG is the story of the extraordinary young man who played the game that changed the world and the political actors who were playing him. With Nixon and Mao on either side of the court, free-spirited hippie Glenn Cowan reaches across the net to usher in a fragile new friendship between two great countries in this funny, incisive, and wildly imaginative new play about the little moments of history that set up the big ones.

First published in 1915, this book presents a dramatization of part of Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia. The original text represents one of the first successful attempts to popularise Buddhism and its founder Gautama Buddha -- presenting his life, teachings and philosophy in verse poetry. This adaptation dramatizes part of the The Light of Asia and includes staging instructions, properties required, illustrative drawings of suggested costumes, and incidental music composed specifically for the piece. This book will be of interest to students of Indian and Buddhist literature...

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.

The plays invite comparison with one another, engaging with the issue from perspectives of the three countries concerned: Hindutva politics in India othering the Muslim population for electoral gains, radical Islamization of Pakistan paralyzing political governance and encouraging jihadi violence, and the ever-increasing Islamist threat to Bangladesh's founding...