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Refereed Publications

Literati and Actors at Work: The Transformations of Peony Pavilion on Page and on Stage in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

《從案頭到氍毹：《牡丹亭》明清文人之詮釋改編與舞臺藝術之遞進》

(National Taiwan University Press 台大出版社, 2013). ISBN 978-986-03-9923-3 (hardback, 269 pages)

2nd edition forthcoming

Table of contents and the preface

 

Guest Editor. Special Issue on Cultural Translation, East Asia and the World, Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 9.1 (June 2012). [Full text]

 

"The Empress Dowager as Dramaturg: Reinventing Late-Qing Court Theatre." Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China. 14.2 (2012): 21-46 [Full text]

Introduction, Special Issue on Cultural Translation, East Asia and the World, Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 9.1 (June 2012). [Full text]

"Mudan ting Jingmeng zhi huashen yanchu kao (The Genesis and Transformation of the 'Flower Spirits Dancing' in The Peony Pavilion)." Journal of The National Institute for Compilation And Translation 27.2 (2000): 97-112. [Full text]

"Qing zhongye kunju biaoyan yishu zhi zaixian—Shenyin jiangu lu xilun" (The Representation of Kunqu Performance in Mid Qing-- A Study On Shenyin jiangu lu). Bulletin of Fu-Hsing Academy of Theatre Arts 23 (1998): 71-96.

"Kunqu Opera Activities in Taiwan," Lan Kan. Beijing: China Kunju Study Assembly. No. 1 (1996): 62. [in Chinese]

"Zhishang qushu—Shenyin jiangu lu zuowei yuedu wenben de meixue yiyi (Red Carpet on the Page: The Aesthetics of Shenyin jiangu lu)." Mingjia lun Kunqu(Essays on Kunqu by Leading Scholars), 2 vols. Vol. 2, ed. Hong Weizhu. Taipei: Guojia chubanshe, 2010. 751-778. [Full text]

"Homeward Odyssey: Theatrical Reframing of 'The Rakshas and the Sea Market.'" Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 140 (2003): 279-307. [Full text]

 

Critical introduction and translation. “Lady Macbeth: A Sichuan Opera” by Xu Fen, Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia: A Critical Anthology of Shakespearean Plays in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, ed. Ryuta Minami (Routledge, in press).

 

The Cambridge World Encyclopedia of Stage and Actors and Acting. Ed. Simon Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 27 short essays (total: 10,000 words) on Chinese actors and performance conventions. Submitted and under contract.

Kunqu cidian (The Encyclopedia of Kunqu Drama), ed. Hong Weizhu (Taipei: National Center for Traditional Art, 2002); entries on Kunqu activities and organizations in Taiwan.

 

Rev. of Review of The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama. Edited by C. T. Hsia, Wai-Yee Li, and George Kao. Journal of Asian Studies 74.2 (May 2015), pp. 466-467 [Full text]

Rev. of Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 by Andrea S. Goldman. Asian Theatre Journal 31.1 (2014): 327-329. [Full text]

Rev. of The Flower Princess by Tong Dik Sang, trans. by Bell Yung, with assistance from Sonia Ng and Katherine Carlitz. MCLC: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, March 2013. [Full text]

Rev. of Text, Performance and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, ed. Maghiel Van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, and Michel Hockx. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39.2 (August 2012): 320-324. [Full text]

 

A review of "Encountering the Other: Identity, Culture, and the Novel in Late Imperial China" by Huili Zheng, Dissertation Reviews, November 6, 2014 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2010, 223 pp.)

 

Staging the Empire: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1662-1924

 

Ritual into Play: The Aesthetic Transformations of Qing Court Theatre. Ph. D. dissertation, Stanford University, June 2009.

 

Awards and Honors

2015-2016       GWU Office of the Vice President for Research University Facilitating Fund (UFF) grant

2015-2016       GWU Sigur Center for Asian Studies faculty research grant

2013-2014       American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) research fellowship (see the "About Fellows" section)

2012       George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Facilitating Fund research grant

2012        George Washington University Sigur Center for Asian Studies faculty research grant

2012        Luther Rice Collaborative Fellowship, George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences; support for student research ($5000) carried out in collaboration with, and under the guidance of a faculty mentor ($1000). Student fellow: Vivian Young. Topic: the moral universe of Jin Yong’s martial arts novels

2011       Fellow. Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, May-June 2011

2010       Penn State Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Teaching Support Grant ($14,025)

2009       Penn State University Global Fund grant

2006       Outstanding Member of the Community, awarded by the Penn State University Fraternity and Sorority Chapters

2006       Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies conference travel grant

2005-2006     Harvard-Yenching Peking University Research Fellowship (declined)

2005              Visiting Scholar, China Academy of Arts in Beijing (中国艺术研究院)

2004-2005    Stanford University Institute for International Studies Dissertation Fellowship in Chinese Studies

2004              Graduate Research Opportunities Grant, Stanford University

2003              SPEAC Fellowship, National East Asian Languages Resource Center, Ohio State University

2003-2004     Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages (DLCL) Doctoral Fellowship

2001              Japan Fund fellowship and FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) summer grant, Stanford University

1999-2003     Stanford University DLCL Doctoral Fellowship

1997              Research Grant, Foundation for Development of Chinese Culture, Taiwan

 

Invited Lectures

Renmin University of China (Beijing) and Columbia University, Beijing, China: “The Politics of Monumentality and Jiaqing Emperor’s (r. 1796-1820) Ceremonial Dramas," International Conference on Qing Drama and Court Culture, Nov. 3-4, 2014 (conference website; conference in the news; wenmignwang news; website; news; news archived)

University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2014 KFLC Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: "Performing the Past, Eyeing the Future: Negotiating Collective Identity in Kangxi’s Court Theatre," Apr. 10-12, 2014.

University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim: "Opera on the Road: The Imperial Theatre Troup and the Court Administration of the Qianlong Emperor's Trips to Chengde, 1741-1798." Conference on "The Imperial Court in China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor's Household (1600 - early 1900's)." April 18-19, 2013.

Rutgers University Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and Confucius Institute: "Monumentalizing Imperial Virtue on Stage: Court Drama during the Jiaqing Reign of the Qing Dynasty." Invited paper at the conference on "The Interaction of Literature, History and Thought: Revisiting the ‘Trinity’ in Chinese Scholarship," November 9-11, 2012

University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies: "Power into Play: Guest Ritual and Tribute-Paying Dramas of the Qianlong Reign," April, 2012

The Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution: "Power into Play: Theatre and Qing Court Culture," Nov. 2, 2011

Ohio State University, Institute of Chinese Studies, China in Global Context lecture series: "Guest Ritual and Tribute-Paying Dramas of the Qianlong Reign," May 7, 2010

University of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
    "Rethinking Court Drama after the Daoguang Reign," 2 April, 2010

National Taiwan University Department of Drama - International Theatre Conference, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008, Taipei
    "Hou Nanfu shidai yidian yanju zhi biange  (The Reinvention and Transformation of the court theatrical performance after the Daoguang Reign)"

 

Conference Presentations

ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 30-August 2, 2015
    "A Chinese Giant’s Global Journey"

CHINOPERL Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26, 2015.
    "Death of a Boy Actor: Traveling Court Troupes in the Early Years of the Qianlong Reign"

EACS (European Association of Chinese Studies), Université Paris Diderot, Paris, September 5-8, 2012.
    "Guest Ritual and Court Theatre during the Qianlong Reign: A Case Study of George Macartney's 1793 Visit to China"

AAS (Association for Asian Studies), Toronto, Canada, March 15-18, 2012
    "Curating the Ideal Performance in a Qing Drama Miscellany: The Textual Afterlife of The Story of the Lute (Pipa ji)"

AAP (Association for Asian Performance) Annual Conference, Chicago, Aug. 10-11, 2011
    "Monumentalizing Imperial Virtue on Stage: Court Drama During the Jiaqing Reign of the Qing Dynasty"

AAS, Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 31-April 3, 2011
    "The Empress Dowager as Dramaturg: Reinventing Late-Qing Court Theatre"

CHINOPERL Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26, 2009
    "Ritual or Entertainment? Rethinking Court Drama in the Post-Nanfu Era"

MLA (Modern Language Association), Chicago, December 27-30, 2007
    "Accommodating Chinese Heritage Learners in the Regular Track"

AAS, San Francisco, April, 2006
    "Ritual into Play: The Theatricality and Social Functions of Qing Court Pageantry"

International Conference on Kunqu, National Central University, Taiwan, April, 2005
    "The Aesthetics of Shenyin jiangu lu"

EACS (European Association of Chinese Studies) XVth Biennial Conference, University of Heidelberg, August 25-29, 2004
    "The Pleasure of Reading Performance: Imagistic Representations in Illustrations and Commentaries in Shenyin jiangu lu"

The 15th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), Michigan State University, July 11-13, 2003
    With Helen Chen, "Diachronic Perspectives toward the Grammaticalization of Mandarin Constructional Idioms"

Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, February 28- March 1, 2003
    "Homeward Odyssey: Theatrical Reframing of 'The Rakshas and the Sea Market'"

Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) in conjunction with AAS Annual Meeting, Washington D. C., April 4, 2002
    "Interculturalism and the Geography of Difference: The Cases of Xia Xiyang and Tianfeng yin"

CHINOPERL Annual Conference, Washington D. C., April 4, 2002
    With Changyun Han, "The Making of the Dictionary of Kunqu Opera"

 

Panels and Conferences Organized

Co-organizer, Inaugural GW Digital Humanities Symposium, George Washington University, January 24-26, 2013.

Panel organizer, "Singing, Materiality, and Dynastic Memory: Rethinking Kunqu and Its Performance Culture," AAP (Association for Asian Performance), Washington, D.C., Aug. 1-2, 2012

Co-organizer, AAP (Association for Asian Performance) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1-2, 2012 (100+ participants)

Co-organizer, AAP (Association for Asian Performance) Annual Conference, Chicago, Aug. 10-11, 2011 (80+ participants)

Panel chair, "Transformations of Xiqu," AAP (Association for Asian Performance) Annual Conference, Chicago, Aug. 10-11, 2011

 

Collaborative Research Projects

Co-investigator, "Construct a written corpus of L2 English-speaking learners of Chinese," Sep. 2009-2010, Penn State.

Researcher and Coordinator of Penn State section of NSF-funded project, "Robustness in Second Language Learning," dir. Brian MacWhinney, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center