Monthly Archive for February, 2009

  3:30pm | Regenstein Library | Room 523
Screening: Shajiabang 
(1971, model opera, dir. Wu Zhaodi, Ma Erlu, Jiang Shusen, starring Tan Yuanshou, Hong Xuefei)
Guest speaker: Isabel Wong
  Isabel Wong, an ethnomusicologist specializes in the music and theater of China, is a professor emeritus of the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before her [...]

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4:40pm | Cobb Hall | Room 116
Film screening: Mei Lanfang (Forever Enthralled), dir. Chen Kaige, 2008
Roundtable: Reading Mei Lanfang 
chaired by Professor Fu Jin, visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Professor of Chinese music drama at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts
 Professor Judith Zeitlin, professor in Chinese literature, University of Chicago
 Professor Paola Iovene, assistant [...]

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