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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wah Guan LIM Associate Professor of Transcultural Thea
 tre National Chung Hsing University\n\n \n\nDescription: \n\nThe 1980s was
  a most important decade for global Chinese theatre.  In large part prompt
 ed by changes in regional geopolitics\, the search for a local identity pe
 aked among the Chinese communities in East and Southeast Asia. This period
  coincided with the rise of the professional careers of four important dia
 sporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian 高行健 (b. 1940)\, Danny Yun
 g Ning Tsun 榮念曾 (b. 1943)\, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan 賴聲川 (b. 1954)
 \, and Kuo Pao Kun 郭寶崑 (1939–2002)—whose efforts shaped the cont
 emporary Chinese-language theater scenes across China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan
 \, and Singapore.  While the geopolitical conditions of the Cold War impos
 ed ethno-nationalist identities across the region\, in contrast\, these dr
 amatists weaved together native\, foreign\, and Chinese elements in their 
 theater praxis to give voice to the local.  At the same time\, by performi
 ng cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own sta
 tes\, they also debunked the notion of a unified “Chineseness.”  My ta
 lk highlights the key role theater and performance played in suturing iden
 tity in the diaspora and circulating people and ideas across geographical 
 space\, well before cross-strait relations were yet to thaw.\n\n \n\nSpeak
 er's Bio:\n\nLIM Wah Guan (BA Hons 1 UNSW\, MSt Oxford\, MA Princeton\, Ph
 D Cornell) is Associate Professor of Transcultural Chinese Theatre at Nati
 onal Chung Hsing University\, Taichung\, Taiwan.  His research interests s
 pan Chinese-language drama\, cinema\, and literature.  His first monograph
  Denationalizing Identities: The Politics of Performance in the Chinese Di
 aspora (Cornell University Press\, 2024) examines the role theatre and per
 formance have played in identity formation in Chinese communities across E
 ast and Southeast Asia.  Most recently the recipient of the Yushan Fellows
 hip for Early Career Academics\, he was the sole awardee in the Arts and H
 umanities category this year in Taiwan Ministry of Education’s effort to
  attract outstanding academics globally to strengthen the international st
 anding of higher education in the country.  He served previously as Assist
 ant Professor at Bard College in New York and the University of New South 
 Wales\, Sydney\, where he was Lecturer in Chinese Studies in the School of
  Humanities and Languages\, and Fellow of New College.\n\nTo join virtuall
 y: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/92307207515?pwd=i3NiMc9IAzZN981x5PZnp4cqnM9GQ
 1.1\n\n \n\nThis lecture is sponsored by a grant from the Taipei Economic 
 and Cultural Office in New York and co-organized by the East Asia Program 
 and the Department of Asian Studies.
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SUMMARY:Global Chinese Theatre: A Transnational Perspective
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 nsnational-perspective
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