Rossella Ferrari

regional managing editor

r.ferrari@thetheatretimes.com

Rossella Ferrari is Reader in Chinese and Theatre Studies at SOAS, University of London. She specializes in Chinese-language theatres, focusing particularly on contemporary experimental practices, transnational collaborations within the Sinophone region, and interactions between the Sinophone theatrical traditions and other Asian performance cultures. Her research interests include avant-garde theory, interculturalism, transnationalism, adaptation, intermediality, and inter-Asian studies. She is the author of the first English-language monograph on Chinese experimental theatre, Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2012), and of Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (Palgrave, 2020). She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from SOAS, University of London.

Notes On the (Pop) Avant-Garde in China

Posted by Rossella Ferrari | 15th Feb 2017 | China, Essay

Obituaries for the avant-garde proliferate. Critics, academics and cultural observers in the...

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