Abstract
This chapter details the activities of two intersecting trans-Asian networks to chart the ramifications of transnational Chinese theatres across significant grassroots performance communities of East Asia in view of theories of ‘Asia as method’. It examines the performance series comprising of 38th Parallel Still Play and 38th Parallel in Taipei—co-devised in 2005 by the Shanghai collective Grass Stage with Taiwanese, South Korean and Hong Kong collaborators—to investigate contested histories of national atrocity through transnational comparison. The performances cross-reference the Korean division and the China–Taiwan conflict to explore inter-Asian relations during and after the Cold War and to reflect on memories of social movements and political protest in modern East Asia.
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