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This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and / or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in Chinäs socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.