Thinking through Performance in China – A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting, Singing, and Theater (c.1200–1850) [Day 2]
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Location
136, Common Room, Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
Sponsors
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
9:30 AM: Panel 4 – Translation Workshop
Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago), Yiren Zheng (Dartmouth University), and Tom Kelly will lead a group discussion of essays by Pan Zhiheng 潘之恆 (1556–1622) on acting, singing, and theater.
Zheng: 蘇舌師；馬手樂 (9:30–10:20)
Zeitlin: 獨音；敘曲；李紉之 (10:30–11:20)
Kelly: 仙度；原近 (11:30–12:20)
12:30 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM: Panel 5 – Theater and Theatricality
Chair: Catherine Yeh, Boston University
Guojun Wang, McGill University, “Bibliography as Critique: Cataloging and Categorizing Drama in Premodern China”
Kangni Huang, Harvard University, “Rethinking Meta-Theater: From Wu Bing to Jiang Shiquan”
4:30 PM: Roundtable – New Directions