Performing “Ghost Village” at the Symposium “Sensorium of the Early Modern Chinese Text”

This musical performance of three arias from the opera Ghost Village accompanied a two-day symposium, The Sensorium of the Early-Modern Chinese Text, which took place from October 23-25 at the University of Chicago. Ghost Village is based on one of the stories from Strange Tales of the Liaozhai by the early Qing dynasty author, Pu Songling (1640-1715). The opera was a collaboration between Chen Yao, of the Central Conservatory in Beijing, and Judith Zeitlin, of the University of Chicago. Open to the public, the project aimed to foster an appreciation of late-imperial Chinese culture.