{"id":31515,"date":"2022-02-21T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=31515"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:53:13","slug":"contemporary-theater-art-seminar-series-no-10-performing-the-socialist-state","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/en\/activity\/contemporary-theater-art-seminar-series-no-10-performing-the-socialist-state\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cContemporary Theater Art\u201d Seminar Series No. 10 – Performing the Socialist State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The lecture offers a quick overview of Xiaomei Chen\u2019s forthcoming book,\u00a0Performing the Socialist State: Moments, Crisis and Success of Modern Chinese Theater\u00a0<\/em>(Columbia University Press, 2022).\u00a0It begins with the theatrical achievements of Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian, three founders of spoken drama, and ask how their legacies in the Republican period played important roles in constructing socialist theater. She will demonstrate how these multi-faceted leaders provided the blueprints for the Maoist theater\u00a0in the PRC, contrary to the conventional claim that the PRC theater is a total break-away from the Republican period. To this end and in this context, she will reflect on the continuities with the performing culture in the Republican period through examinations of \u201cRightist satirical comedies” in the 1950s, women\u2019s theater and film \u201cred classic\u201d in the 1960s, scientists on stage in the Maoist and post-Maoist periods, and soldiers in transformation from the Republican, to the socialist, and finally, to the post-socialist stage. She will also explore the relationship between science\u00a0and theater, music and theater, and artists and their collective\u00a0identities as\u00a0\u201cnew cultural workers.”<\/p>\n

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Xiao\"\"<\/a>mei Chen<\/strong>\u00a0is Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Davis where she teaches modern Chinese literature, film, and theater. She is the author of\u00a0Occidentalism<\/em>\u00a0(1995),\u00a0Acting the Right Part<\/em>\u00a0(2002), and\u00a0Staging Chinese Revolution<\/em>\u00a0(2016). She is the editor of\u00a0Reading the Right Text<\/em>\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama<\/em>\u00a0(2010) and co-editor, with Claire Sponsler, of\u00a0East of West: Cross-Cultural Performances and the Staging of Difference<\/em>\u00a0(2000)”; with Julia Andrew, of\u00a0Visual Culture in Contemporary China<\/em>\u00a0(2001), with Steven Siouan Liu,\u00a0Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in Republican-Era China<\/em>\u00a0(2016), and with Tarryn Chun and Siyuan Liu,\u00a0Rethinking Socialist Theater Reform<\/em>\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n

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Zoom Meeting:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/uni-goettingen.zoom.us\/j\/95966904122<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meeting ID: <\/strong>959 6690 4122<\/p>\n

Language: <\/strong>English<\/p>\n

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