This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology and human geography with reflective accounts by Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to highlight the diversity, vibrancy and complexity of creative projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and nationhood.

Rossella Ferrari is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Ashley Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Director of the Centre for Asian Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain: Hong Kong, Singapore, and the City as Method 2. Culture of Exchange and Cultural Exchange 3. From 1989 to 1997 and Beyond: Zuni Icosahedron's Transnational Explorations 4. Dialectics as Creative Process and Decentring China: Zuni Icosahedron and Drama Box's One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0: Cultural Revolution 5. Thoughts on Cross-Cultural Collaboration by Mok Chiu-yu, a Hong Konger: What We Did and Why There Was Little Interaction with Singapore 6. Augustine Mok Chiu-yu's Intercultural Asian People's Theatre: Imagining 'The Third Way' for Hong Kong 7. Solitude to Solidarity: Imagined Transnational Alliance of Humanity against Bestial Hegemony 8. Crossing-Over as Strategy 9. The City and the Artist: Alice Theatre Laboratory's Seven Boxes Possessed of Kafka in Shanghai 10. Unequal Cosmopolitanisms: Staging Singaporean Nanyin in and beyond Asia 11. Minor Translocalism: Messy and Marginal Networks in and beyond Singapore. An Interview with Tan Suet Lee 12. Facilitating Exchange 13. Postscript: Asian City Crossings as a Strategy for Freedom?