Eva Shan Chou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Shan Chou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva Shan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chou |
| SIGNATURE | CHOU E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York, Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 1958 Chinese Swan Lake
In 1958, the Beijing Dance School mounted a full-length production of Swan Lake. Despite Chinese pride in this milestone, the work is all but ignored in histories of Chinese dance, limiting its broader recognition. Drawing on primary sources, memoirs, interviews and ballet histories, this article frames Swan Lake as a dance achievement adhering to a political timetable. It analyzes the government’s role in bringing the ballet to life and reconstr…
Archives of the Dance (27), The Establishment of Beijing Dance School in the First-Hand Report of Soviet Specialist O. A. Il'ina
The Beijing Dance School was founded in 1954 by China's Ministry of Culture to develop the dance arts through professional training in Chinese classical dance, the folk dances of the ethnic minorities and Han Chinese, and ballet and character dance. Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Il'ina's report, filed with the USSR Ministry of Culture, is the only known Soviet account, covering both the intense preparations for the school and the complexities of its first …
A Story about Hair
This article examines the subject of queues in the life and writings of Lu Xun (1881-1936), the most prominent figure in modern Chinese literature. The long-standing reluctance of readers and critics to associate this backward hairstyle with Lu Xun's iconic figure has restricted our understanding of the topic to two well-known satirical portraits in his short fiction, Ah Q and Sevenpounder. This article, however, proposes that the queue is of mor…
Tu Fu's "General Ho" Poems
China’s Avant-Garde Fiction
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their wilful apathy toward everything held sacred by the gen…
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Foreword James R. Hightower Preface Part I. The Legacy of Tu Fu: 1. Historical background and biography 2. The cultural legacy 3. The poetic legacy Part II. Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in the Poetry: 4. Subject matter 5. Realism 6. Stylized realism Part III. Juxtaposition I: A Structural Principle: 7. Juxtaposition defined 8. Examples 9. Juxtaposition and other structures Part IV. Juxtaposition II: A Biographical Analogue: 10. Ch…
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. In the epochal An Lu-shan rebellion, he alone of his contemporaries consistently recorded in poetry the great events and pervasive sufferings of the time. For a millennium, Tu Fu's poetry has been accepted as epitomizing the Chinese moral conscience at its highest, and as such his work has been placed almost beyond the reach of criticism. In Reconsidering Tu Fu, Eva Shan …
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Foreword James R. Hightower Preface Part I. The Legacy of Tu Fu: 1. Historical background and biography 2. The cultural legacy 3. The poetic legacy Part II. Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in the Poetry: 4. Subject matter 5. Realism 6. Stylized realism Part III. Juxtaposition I: A Structural Principle: 7. Juxtaposition defined 8. Examples 9. Juxtaposition and other structures Part IV. Juxtaposition II: A Biographical Analogue: 10. Ch…
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. In the epochal An Lu-shan rebellion, he alone of his contemporaries consistently recorded in poetry the great events and pervasive sufferings of the time. For a millennium, Tu Fu's poetry has been accepted as epitomizing the Chinese moral conscience at its highest, and as such his work has been placed almost beyond the reach of criticism. In Reconsidering Tu Fu, Eva Shan …
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Foreword James R. Hightower Preface Part I. The Legacy of Tu Fu: 1. Historical background and biography 2. The cultural legacy 3. The poetic legacy Part II. Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in the Poetry: 4. Subject matter 5. Realism 6. Stylized realism Part III. Juxtaposition I: A Structural Principle: 7. Juxtaposition defined 8. Examples 9. Juxtaposition and other structures Part IV. Juxtaposition II: A Biographical Analogue: 10. Ch…
China’s Avant-Garde Fiction
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their wilful apathy toward everything held sacred by the gen…
Tu Fu's "General Ho" Poems
A Story about Hair
This article examines the subject of queues in the life and writings of Lu Xun (1881-1936), the most prominent figure in modern Chinese literature. The long-standing reluctance of readers and critics to associate this backward hairstyle with Lu Xun's iconic figure has restricted our understanding of the topic to two well-known satirical portraits in his short fiction, Ah Q and Sevenpounder. This article, however, proposes that the queue is of mor…
Archives of the Dance (27), The Establishment of Beijing Dance School in the First-Hand Report of Soviet Specialist O. A. Il'ina
The Beijing Dance School was founded in 1954 by China's Ministry of Culture to develop the dance arts through professional training in Chinese classical dance, the folk dances of the ethnic minorities and Han Chinese, and ballet and character dance. Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Il'ina's report, filed with the USSR Ministry of Culture, is the only known Soviet account, covering both the intense preparations for the school and the complexities of its first …
The 1958 Chinese Swan Lake
In 1958, the Beijing Dance School mounted a full-length production of Swan Lake. Despite Chinese pride in this milestone, the work is all but ignored in histories of Chinese dance, limiting its broader recognition. Drawing on primary sources, memoirs, interviews and ballet histories, this article frames Swan Lake as a dance achievement adhering to a political timetable. It analyzes the government’s role in bringing the ballet to life and reconstr…
Art (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Ballet (2 works) · China (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works)