This workshop focuses on Chinese theatre and performance of the 1950s-1960s, a period during which the performing arts occupied a prominent political and cultural position in the People’s Republic of China. Working across a range of disciplines, methodological approaches, and performance genres, presenters will explore the tensions between the goals of socialist cultural reform and the messier realities of its implementation. Topics will range from early 1950s xiqu reform to the development of socialist dance-dramas to Cultural Revolution-era rural performance. By exploring key moments and events in the history of socialist theatre from different disciplinary and genre perspectives, this workshop aims to stimulate lively discussion of the challenges, contradictions, and “successes” of the Maoist project to reform the Chinese theatre world.
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Sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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