The study of Briain-its history，geography，politics，economy，language，literature and culture-has been conducted both in and outside the classroom of English in China for many decades and even centurise.But since late 1980s，British Studise as a Growing and dynamic interdisciplinary subject has been going through drastic changes，powerfully moving beyond a study of mainly canonical masterpieces.Indees，the complex processes of glocalisation（globalisation and localisation）of the economy，of images，of discourses，and of risks and problems have given rise to an urgent need to cross geographical，national，political and cultural as well as disciplinary boundaries.This book features 25essays and reflections on British（mainly contemporary）literary and cultural texts，engaging a host of critical perspectives in gender，postcolonial，humanistic，discourse，and cultural studies.They are organized into four parts，“Drama of Shakespeare and Beyond，”“Revisiting British Poetic Kingdom，”“Rereading Tales of Britain，”and“Globalizing Culture and British Cinema.”Generally or specifically，these essays and reflections address issues such as class，gender，ethnicity，orienalism，aesthetic，social，political，and cultural identity，indicating the complexity of contemporary debates over BVritish written and visual consturctions of the Other as well as themselves.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Decoding Contemporary Britain：An Overview
Part one Drama of shakespeare and beyond
Shakespeara in Love and Modern Britain
Modern British Drama and a Multipolar World
Turn-Taking Mechanism and Antonio's Sadness
Power and Sexuality：An Analysis of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming
Part two Revisiting british poetic kingdom
Achilles'Shield Metamorphosed in Modern British Poetry
John Donne the Ladies'Man and Feminist Reformers
Milton and Old English
Maiden/Muse：the Othre-Objectification of Women in Keats'Poems：“The Eve of St。Agnes”
Part three Rereading tales of britain
Possessed by the Past
Living in Limbo:The Buddha of Suburbia and The Final Passage
A Summer Journey of Self-discovery
Two Halves of A Single Soul：An Archetypal Analysis of the Love of Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights
How Much Does James Joyce Know about Chinese History and Culture?
Colonial Discourse，lmperial Practice and Orientalism in A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf：A Critic of Delicate Subtlety-A Complementary Reading of Dalloway as a Social Critique
Part four Globalizing culture and british cinema