• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Postpone the Great Game
  • Beteiligte: Schechner, Richard
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022
  • Erschienen in: TDR: The Drama Review
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s105420432200051x
  • ISSN: 1531-4715; 1054-2043
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory ; Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>The Great Game of the 19th century was the struggle between Russia and the British in Afghanistan to control India. The Ukraine war is a new version of the Great Game. In the 1930s to defeat the Japanese, an existential threat to China, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek postponed their civil war. Climate change is the world’s existential threat. Let’s postpone all wars to deal with climate change.</jats:p>