Category Archive for 'Screenings'

  3:30pm | Harper Memorial Hall | Room 103
A Test of Love
Qing tan  情探
 
(Chinese subtitles)
 
Jiangnan Film Studio 1958, Shaoxing opera, dir. Huang Zumo 黄祖模, starring Fu Quanxiang 傅全香, Lu Jinhua 陆锦花
               
Prefatory presentation: Judith Zeitlin (Professor in Chinese Literature, EALC, University of Chicago)

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  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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3:30pm – 6:30pm | Cobb Hall | Room 310 (Film Studies Center)    
 Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategies
Zhiqu Weihu shan 智取威虎山
1970, jingju, model work, starring Tong Xiangling 童祥苓
           Prefatory presentation: Zhang Ling
 
 Guest Speakers: Professor Xie Boliang 
                          Professor Hao Yinbai
 
Prof. Xie will also give a speech on the growth of the discipline of Chinese music drama studies 中国戏曲学学科的建设与发展.   

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Please download the two articles (in Chinese) regarding the two films we are watching on Tue, Oct. 28.  They are recommended by our student presenter Zhang Ling.
1) mei-lanfang-yu-kunqu.pdf
2) xu-jichuan.doc

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Screening Events

Download the time schedule of the six movies we are watching in the Fall quarter: chinese-opera-films_screening-schedule_fall-2008.doc.
Screening Events (Fall 2008)
Sponsored by Council of Advanced Studies and Center for East Asian Studies
 Cobb 310 (Film Studies Center) | 3:30pm
Refreshments will be served.  If you have any questions or wish to subscribe the workshop’s event announcements, please contact Xu Peng at [...]

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