Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarryn Li-Min Chun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarryn Li-Min |
| FAMILY NAME | Chun |
| SIGNATURE | CHUN T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5958-0255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cultural Heritage
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era
The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied however is how cultural events, and theater reforms in particular, contributed to the dynamic landscape of contemporary Chinese society. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform fills this gap by investigating the theories and practice of socialist theater and their effects on a diver…
Wang Chong and the Theatre of Im media cy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis
In early January 2020, when Chinese theatre director Wang Chong (b. 1982) arrived in New York to remount his production of Nick Payne's Constellations for the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, he couldn't have predicted that this would be the last time for months that he would watch his actors from the middle of a full house. By the time his work-in-progress solo show, Made in China 2.0, opened at the Asia TOPA Festival in Melbourne, Aus…
Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks In East Asia by Rossella Ferrari
Reviewed by: Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks In East Asia by Rossella Ferrari Tarryn Li-Min Chun TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE THEATRES: INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE NETWORKS IN EAST ASIA. By Rossella Ferrari. Transnational Theatre Histories series. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. 306. Tokyo, 1907. Hong Kong, 1997. Beijing-Taipei, 1945. Panmunjom, 1953. Taipei, 1947. Gwangju, 1980. Beijing, 1989. Nanjing, 19…
Spoken Drama and Its Doubles: Thunderstorm 2.0 by Wang Chong and Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental
Thunderstorm 2.0 at the 2018 Under the Radar Festival introduced a modern Chinese classic to US audiences via radical adaptation and an assemblage of textual deconstruction, live-feed video, and Suzhou pingtan performance. It offered a timely interrogation of gender politics and deftly triangulated among tensions of live vs. mediated performance, folk traditions vs. modern drama, Chinese text vs. foreign context, and re-presenting a canonical pla…
Mediated Transgression and Madame White: Technology and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Stagings of a Chinese Folktale
This essay examines the shifting role of the nonhuman in performances of the Chinese Legend of the White Snake, which tells the tale of a snake spirit turned woman and her human lover. Beginning with a brief analysis of premodern versions of the White Snake, it argues that the theatre played a key role in transforming the legend from cautionary tale to one that celebrates human/nonhuman hybridity. Through narrative changes and performance practic…
The Legend of the White Snake across Mediums
The Legend of the White Snake across Mediums Tarryn Li-Min Chun (bio) My contribution to the Theatre Journal special issue on "Theatre and the Nonhuman" examines three different layers of the nonhuman in performances related to the Chinese Legend of the White Snake (Baishe zhuan): the supernatural, the spectacular, and the technological. The White Snake is a well-known folktale about a snake spirit who transforms into a woman (Madame White, Bai n…
A New Literary History of Modern China
Adaptation as Hospitality: Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013 Performance Series
The productions of the Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013 performance series ranged from a Yue opera adaptation of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea to modern dance theatre to an exhibition by students. Each production worked in a unique way within the framework of the encounter between foreign and local, guest and host. Together they offered a vision of cross-cultural theatrical exchange that is reconstitutive and inclusionary
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Adaptation as Hospitality: Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013 Performance Series
The productions of the Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013 performance series ranged from a Yue opera adaptation of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea to modern dance theatre to an exhibition by students. Each production worked in a unique way within the framework of the encounter between foreign and local, guest and host. Together they offered a vision of cross-cultural theatrical exchange that is reconstitutive and inclusionary
A New Literary History of Modern China
Spoken Drama and Its Doubles: Thunderstorm 2.0 by Wang Chong and Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental
Thunderstorm 2.0 at the 2018 Under the Radar Festival introduced a modern Chinese classic to US audiences via radical adaptation and an assemblage of textual deconstruction, live-feed video, and Suzhou pingtan performance. It offered a timely interrogation of gender politics and deftly triangulated among tensions of live vs. mediated performance, folk traditions vs. modern drama, Chinese text vs. foreign context, and re-presenting a canonical pla…
Mediated Transgression and Madame White: Technology and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Stagings of a Chinese Folktale
This essay examines the shifting role of the nonhuman in performances of the Chinese Legend of the White Snake, which tells the tale of a snake spirit turned woman and her human lover. Beginning with a brief analysis of premodern versions of the White Snake, it argues that the theatre played a key role in transforming the legend from cautionary tale to one that celebrates human/nonhuman hybridity. Through narrative changes and performance practic…
The Legend of the White Snake across Mediums
The Legend of the White Snake across Mediums Tarryn Li-Min Chun (bio) My contribution to the Theatre Journal special issue on "Theatre and the Nonhuman" examines three different layers of the nonhuman in performances related to the Chinese Legend of the White Snake (Baishe zhuan): the supernatural, the spectacular, and the technological. The White Snake is a well-known folktale about a snake spirit who transforms into a woman (Madame White, Bai n…
Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks In East Asia by Rossella Ferrari
Reviewed by: Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks In East Asia by Rossella Ferrari Tarryn Li-Min Chun TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE THEATRES: INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE NETWORKS IN EAST ASIA. By Rossella Ferrari. Transnational Theatre Histories series. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. 306. Tokyo, 1907. Hong Kong, 1997. Beijing-Taipei, 1945. Panmunjom, 1953. Taipei, 1947. Gwangju, 1980. Beijing, 1989. Nanjing, 19…
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era
The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied however is how cultural events, and theater reforms in particular, contributed to the dynamic landscape of contemporary Chinese society. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform fills this gap by investigating the theories and practice of socialist theater and their effects on a diver…
Wang Chong and the Theatre of Im media cy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis
In early January 2020, when Chinese theatre director Wang Chong (b. 1982) arrived in New York to remount his production of Nick Payne's Constellations for the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, he couldn't have predicted that this would be the last time for months that he would watch his actors from the middle of a full house. By the time his work-in-progress solo show, Made in China 2.0, opened at the Asia TOPA Festival in Melbourne, Aus…
Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cultural Heritage
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