Staging the Modern: Theatre, Intermediality, and Chinese Drama
The title of this symposium, “Staging the Modern," invokes the deep entanglement of the theater, new media, and Chinese modernity in the dramas of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora during the 20th and 21st centuries. Participants will explore the ways in which the Chinese stage has functioned as a space, both material and metaphorical, for the interaction of text, context, and new technologies, and how, as scholars and practitioners, our own mediation further complicates these interactions. Conceiving of theater as both a type of media and as a medium of transmission, speakers will present papers that examine the dramatic interplay among medias and mediums in relation to concepts of performance, representation, intermediality, multimodality, and multimedia in the context of Chinese history, modernity, and performance traditions.
Sponsored by the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Location: CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St.
More information: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k75571