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Books

Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009), paperback and cloth editions

Sample pages from prologue and chapter 1 (PDF file, 3.9 MB)
Online video archive: Shakespeare Performance in Asia

Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace, co-edited with Charles Ross (Purdue University Press, forthcoming in late 2009)
Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance, co-edited with I-chun Wang and Mary Theis (Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007).

 

Editorial Projects

Asian Theatre Journal Asian Theatre Journal special issue, tentatively scheduled for 2010
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare

Illustrations Editor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Ed. Patricia Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (in press).  Also contributed 11 articles, 26 pp.


Film Review Cluster, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (in press).

 

Refereed Journal Articles

"Mo Yan as Humorist." World Literature Today 83.4 (2009): 32-35.
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"Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectics between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, 69. 1 (March 2008): 97-118.
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"Asian Shakespeares in Europe: From the Unfamiliar to the Defamiliarised." Shakespearean International Yearbook 8 (2008): 51-70
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"Shakespearean Localities and the Localities of Shakespeare Studies." Shakespeare Studies 35 (2007): 186-204
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"Shakespeare, Performance, and Autobiographical Interventions." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 24. 2 (Summer 2006): 31-47
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"Impersonation, Autobiography, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Lee Kuo-Hsiu's Shamlet." Asian Theatre Journal 22.1 (Spring 2005): 122-137
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Modern Language QuarterlyShakespeare BulletinShakespearean International YearbookArchiv fuer das Studium neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenShakespeareShakespeare Studies

 

Refereed Book Chapters

"Pastiche and Identity in Taiwan's Postmodern Theatre: Stan Lai and Buddhism." Taiwan Literature and History.  Ed. Kuo-Ch'ing Tu.  University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Taiwan Studies, 2007.  213-222.
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"Shakespeare bunt geschminkt: Die chinesische Shakespeare-Werkstatt." Lebendige Erinnerung -- Xiqu: Zeitgenössische Entwicklungen im chinesischen Musiktheater, hrsg. Tian Mansha and Johannes Odenthal (Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2006), pp. 156-165
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"Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York." Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, ed. Scott Newstok and Ayanna Thompson. New York: Palgrave, forthcoming in Dec. 2009.

"'No World without Verona Walls'? Shakespeare in the Provincial Cultural Marketplace." Re-Playing Shakespeare in Asia. Ed. Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryutan. London: Routledge, forthcoming in Nov., 2009.

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Comparative Literature StudiesErinnerungShakespeare without EnglishChina Review InternationalChung Wai Wen Hsueh

 

Review Essays

"The Politics of Recognition and Comparative Literature." CLC Web: Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (December, 2006).
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Performance Reviews

Rev. of King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association 3. 2 (August 2007): 239-242
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Rev. of King Lear, Yellow Earth and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. Theatre Journal 59.3 (2007): 494-495.

 

Encyclopedia Articles

The Oxford Companion to Theatre & Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.  One entry on Wu Hsing-kuo.

The Encyclopedia of Modern China. 4 vols. Ed. David Pong, Julia Andrews, et al. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009; two essays, approx. 2,000 words.

Illustrations Editor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Ed. Patricia Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming in late 2009; also contributed 11 articles. Approx. 6,000 words.

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre. 2 vols. Ed. Samuel Leiter (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007). 15 entries, approx. 7100 words.

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre

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Book Reviews

Rev. of Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, by Yiyan Wang. Journal of Asian Studies 68.4 (2009): 1272-1274.

Rev. of Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, ed. Peter Holland. Shakespeare Quarterly 59.4 (Winter 2008): 500-503.
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Rev. of Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice, by Jerome Silbergeld. China Review International 14.1 (2007): 266-269.
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Rev. of Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage, by Frances Teague. Theatre Journal 60.4 (2008): 680-681.
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Selected Grants & Awards:

2009, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, publication subsidy award for monograph Chinese Shakespeares (grant to Columbia University Press) in recognition of its sinological value

2009, Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University

2008, Folger Institute Grant for participation in semester-long research semina

2008, Best Paper Award, Inaugural Conference of Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

2006, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Faculty Travel Grant

2006, International Shakespeare Association Travel Grant

2005, Penn State University Institute for Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Grant

2004, Association of Asian Performance Emerging Scholar Award

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Invited Lectures

Cambridge University, Downing College: "Ghost Writers in Search of Utopia: Translating and Manufacturing Literary Prestige in Late Qing China," Sept. 28, 2009.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: Opening Lecture for "Imagining China" Exhibition (with Timothy Billings), Sept. 17, 2009.

Binghamton University State University of New York, Inauguarl Lecture, Harpur College Dean's Speaker Series: "Screening Sinophone Visuality: Shakespeare in an Age of Localization," Nov. 13, 2009.

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies: "The Aesthetics of Shanghai and Dystopian Locality," Nov. 14, 2008.

Universität Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies: "Inter-media Studies and Literary Globalism," June 20, 2008.

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): "Untralsnating China: Cosmopolitan Iterations," Mar. 13, 2008.

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities: "Locality and Performative Translation," Feb. 28, 2006.

Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) project, Singapore: Two lectures on transnational cinema and intercultural performance. Led one workshop. Aug. 18-19, 2006.

Tsinghua University (China), Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies: "Performing Globalism: Shakespeare in the World," June 2, 2005.

National Taiwan University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures: "New Forces in Modern Chinese Theater," Nov. 27, 2004.

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Television

WPSU-TV: "Reinventing Shakespeare: Lobby Talks with Actors from the London Stage, Penn State, Nov. 15 and 18, 2007. <Video Online>

WPSU-TV interview, Pennsylvania Inside Out, Penn State, October 29, 2007. <Video Online>

 

Conference Participation

     Papers forthcoming:

"Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia." Roundtable. Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009.

"Of Samurais and Knights-Errant: Unthinking Visuality in East Asian Shakespeare Films." World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, 2011.

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     Papers delivered:

"Religious Rhetorics, Shakespeare Spin-offs, the Remix: Intercultural Journeys of Unlearning and Self-Knowledge." Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Washington D.C., Apr. 9-11, 2009.

"The Comic and Tragic Visions in Qian Zhongshu and Lu Xun." Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, Mar. 26-29, 2009.

“Doing Anything for a Laugh? Mo Yan and the Question of Humor in China." MLA, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008.

"Shakespeare, Visuality, East Asian Alterity." Renderings: Shakespeare Across Continents, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, Sept. 10-12, 2008.

"Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Qian Zhongshu and Lao She." AAS, Atlanta, Apr. 3-6, 2008.

"How to Do Things with Asian Shakespeares: Liminality, Alterity, Authenticity." Plenary Lecture. Shakespeare Society of Japan convention, Waseda University, Tokyo, Oct. 7, 2007.

Speaker. Roundtable on the Centennial of Chinese Spoken Drama. Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007.

"Late Imperial China and Its Invention of the West,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Penn State University, Mar. 11-13, 2005.

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     Panels and conferences organized:

Mid-Atlantic Region, Association for Asian Studies (MAR-AAS) annual conference, Penn State, October, 2010

"Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia." Roundtable. Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009.

"Tears and Laughter in Asian Comedy." Association of Asian Performance (AAP), New York, August 7, 2009.

"Parodic China: Subversion and Mockery in Modern Entertainment Culture." Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, Mar. 26-29, 2009.

"Asian Shakespeares in Europe." Research Seminar. British Shakespeare Association (BSA), London, Sept. 11-13, 2009.

"Shakespeare, Appropriation, and the Ethical." Research Seminar. Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), San Diego, Apr. 5-7, 2007.

"Brave Old Worlds: Shakespeare in East Asia." VIII. World Shakespeare Congress (WSC), Brisbane, Australia, July 16-21, 2006. Co-sponsored by the International Shakespeare Association.
Conference Program

"Performing Imperialism and Cultural Otherness in Modern East Asia." American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Penn State, Mar. 11-13, 2005.

"Shakespeare in Asia," an international conference at Stanford University, April 2004

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Service to the Profession:

     International and National:

Reviewing manuscripts for universitiy presses and journals, participation in digital humanities projects, external reader for doctoral dissertations. More...

     University, College, and Departmental:

Advisory board member (MAR-AAS and Penn State's Migration Studies Project), committee service, Committee for Early Modern Studies, advisor for M.A. and Ph.D. students, Education Abroad liaison. More...


Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association(MLA)
Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

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