Dienstag
03
DEZ

13.30 Uhr

Traditional Chinese Drama and the Future of Theater Cultural Studies (2020s)

This session brings together two prominent theater scholars and practitioners from the Mainland and Taiwan: Chengzhou HE explores an aesthetic breakthrough in two modern Kunqu Plays around 2020, with a unique form of fictional realism on the stage, implicit ways of conventionalization, and the incorporation of fashion elements on stage. These aesthetic innovations facilitate kunqu’s re-entry into the landscape of contemporary Chinese theatre as a forceful agent of cultural intervention. Stan LAI takes the conference audience through his creative journey that spans five decades, starting in Taiwan, and now based in Shanghai, with stops in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the U.S. Lai’s diverse creative choices and strategies, spurred by different inspirations and circumstances throughout the stages of his career, resulted from his reflection on the larger context of artists making theatre in the Chinese speaking world. In conjunction with this conference, on the last day of the conference on December 3, Dr. Stan LAI, the most important playwright in the Chinese and Sinophone cultures, will present his conference paper in person and online, and participate in the local events with Hong Kong theater communities during the same week.

Adresse

Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

010.01.015

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

Veranstalter

Institut für Sinologie

Homepage Veranstalter

www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie

Kontakt

Institut für Sinologie

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