Kai Tuchmann is based at The Central Academy of Drama Beijing, China.

»This volume is [ …] understood [best] as the presentation of an ongoing process in which Chinese and other Asian artists and theorists try to articulate their practices through European, mainly German, concepts. Tuchmann, as an avid observer and keen advocate, offers his dramaturgical interpretation of a process that is still rapidly unfolding and reshaping itself. The value of this volume lies in its reciprocal resonance ‒ not as an ultimate verdict where exchange ceases but as a starting point where future conversations ensue.«

• Foreword; Introduction; Rethinking Theatricality; Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre and the New Aesthetics of Juchang; There is No Empty Space on Earth; How to Work With Things That Really Happened; STOLPERSTEINE STAATSTHEATER: Documentary Theatre; RED: A Documentary Performance; From the Red Detachment to the Women: A Postscript; Don't Be Yourself. Notes on the Impossibility of Documentary; HAMLET; Practice of Theatre: Rehearsal of Life; LOVE STORY; Shame and Power: A Critical Conversation on the Postdramatic Condition; Biographies; List of Figures and Online Resources.

Kai Tuchmann is based at The Central Academy of Drama Beijing, China.

»This volume is [ …] understood [best] as the presentation of an ongoing process in which Chinese and other Asian artists and theorists try to articulate their practices through European, mainly German, concepts. Tuchmann, as an avid observer and keen advocate, offers his dramaturgical interpretation of a process that is still rapidly unfolding and reshaping itself. The value of this volume lies in its reciprocal resonance ‒ not as an ultimate verdict where exchange ceases but as a starting point where future conversations ensue.«

• Foreword; Introduction; Rethinking Theatricality; Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre and the New Aesthetics of Juchang; There is No Empty Space on Earth; How to Work With Things That Really Happened; STOLPERSTEINE STAATSTHEATER: Documentary Theatre; RED: A Documentary Performance; From the Red Detachment to the Women: A Postscript; Don't Be Yourself. Notes on the Impossibility of Documentary; HAMLET; Practice of Theatre: Rehearsal of Life; LOVE STORY; Shame and Power: A Critical Conversation on the Postdramatic Condition; Biographies; List of Figures and Online Resources.