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Markets in everything China fact of the day
I enjoyed this one and I wonder what the sequel will look like:
Drawing inspiration from a best-selling Japanese manga adaptation of Das Kapital, Chinese theater producers are planning to bring Marx's masterpiece to the stage.
Yang Shaolin, general manager of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, told the Wen Hui Bao that, together with Fudan University economics professor Zhang Jun and other experts, he is preparing a dramatization of Das Kapital. They've already decided on a director: He Nian, who directed the stage adaptation of the hit martial-arts spoof My Own Swordsman (武林外传).
He Nian says he will combine elements from animation, Broadway musicals, and Las Vegas stage shows to bring Marx's economic theories to life as a trendy, interesting, and educational play.
I thank Robert C. for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 12, 2009 at 01:22 PM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
I bet it makes a lot of money.
Posted by: kevin at Mar 12, 2009 2:01:17 PM
Musicals are in these days. The whole thing can be modeled against Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas style -- instead of O (water) and Ka (fire), we will have Das Kapital and the Road to Serfdom.
Posted by: Yan at Mar 12, 2009 2:57:01 PM
So are they still Marxist or what?
Posted by: josh at Mar 12, 2009 3:16:27 PM
Lol
What will the sequel look like? That would mean a musical about the manifesto so lots of dead people, odd young Cambodians going off to Paris to learn weird ideas and upon their return to their homeland declare that its time to turn back the clocks to year 0, more dead people, a Chinese dictator with narly teeth, more dead people, two odd lusted over Latin American men from the seventies, more dead people, a weird dictator in North Korea with narly hair, more dead people, and an even weirder dude in Venezuela begging the U.S to turn socialist while carousing with narly American actors, and to top it all off... more dead people. LOL
so in conclusion the sequel will be lots of narliness, weird guys, and dead people.
Posted by: John Pertz at Mar 12, 2009 3:29:10 PM
Correction the two latin american men would be from the late 50's early 60's.
Posted by: John Pertz at Mar 12, 2009 3:33:11 PM
Oh that's delicious. Vegas and Broadway being two shining examples of how central planning makes things people want.
Posted by: improbable at Mar 12, 2009 3:33:48 PM
like Spring time for Hitler and Germany?
Posted by: Mao at Mar 13, 2009 4:46:03 AM
I wish China would just declare that they would stop enforcing any copyright on 1s and 0s, or any combination of them -- so all things digital could be copied freely.
They have how many 18-40 year men MORE than women? some 60 million? They haven't had a Great Leap for awhile...
Posted by: Tom Grey at Mar 13, 2009 8:58:19 PM
