April 12 & 13, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
2 DIVINITY AVE
YENCHING COMMON ROOM
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
This GHF-funded workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting, singing, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists, intellectuals, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening to live performance? How did the act of writing about spectatorship become an artform in and of itself? What might these texts offer for theater and performance studies across the world today? The central question these texts address —namely, “what is the function of Chinese theater?”—has ramifications for students of Chinese history, literature, and thought more broadly.
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