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Chinese cities have established thousands of new museums over the past two decades, but...
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Chinese Theatre Essays
How China’s Musicals Lost Their Groove
Chinese musical theater has largely abandoned high-concept shows in favor of shallow engagement...
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Windows into Performance Art: River Lin’s Artistic and Curatorial Practices
Networking is both motif and method in the work of River Lin (林人中). Performing, directing,...
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Meet The Masters Behind Hong Kong’s Most Extraordinary Bamboo Theatre
For generations, bamboo theatres have been a thread that ties together Hong Kong’s present and...
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The Immigrant Dragons, Part IV: Generations United in Bendigo
Back home in Australia, the world’s largest imperial dragon joins his predecessors – and so...
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All Wuzhen’s A Stage, But It’s Not Yet A Big Player
After a divisive Wuzhen Theatre Festival, the Chinese theater must reassess its priorities. The...
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A Return To The Body: TAO Dance Theatre And Its “Straight Line Trilogy”
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A Performative View on Kafka’s “The Great Wall” by Paper Tiger Theatre Studio (Beijing)
In May and August 2017, respectively, Theater der Welt in Hamburg and The Shanghai Ming...
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Modern Man’s Predicament: Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian As A Tragic Playwright
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Cross-cultural Encounters In World Theatre: Bertolt Brecht, The “Alienation” Effect And Chinese Drama
The German playwright and drama theorist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is particularly famous for...
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Reinventing Shakespeare In Chinese And Sinophone Theatres
Along with a number of Japanese and Western canonical poets and writers, Shakespeare and his works...
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Colliding Traditions Keep Chinese Opera Alive and Well
Chinese opera is as expansive and diverse as China itself – and it continues to thrive in the face...
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How a Bunch of Americans Preserved a Dying Chinese Tradition
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Why All The World’s A Stage For A Classic Chinese Opera
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What Is The State of New Plays in Contemporary China?
Meddling directors, confused actors, and pushy politicians are leaving the country’s budding...
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How to Re-Learn Ways of Seeing, Listening, Reading, and (Story)Telling: “Flee by Night” by Danny Yung
I had long heard of Director [Danny] Yung’s trilogy The Outcast General, Tears of Barren Hill, and...
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Three Ways of Appreciating Traditional Chinese Theatre
In August 2015, I attended the program Classical Beauties presented by Queens Library at Flushing,...
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Should Chinese Opera Westernize to Find Global Audience?
Popularizing the country’s musical tradition means combining mainstream appeal with traditional...
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