Rossella Ferrari
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rossella Ferrari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rossella |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrari |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rossella Ferrari is a Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research and publications focus on Chineselanguage theatre and film, intercultural approaches to performance, and the theory and praxis of the avantgarde. Her monograph Pop Goes the Avantgarde: Experimental Theater in Contemporary China is forthcoming from Seagull Books (Enactments Series). |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9073-9823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. …
Transnational Chinese Theatres Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Asian Theatre as Method
In 2012, Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong), Za-Koenji Public Theatre (Tokyo), and the Jiangsu Kun Opera Theatre (Nanjing) initiated the Toki Project, an intercultural platform devoted to the transmission of kunqu and noh through contemporary performance. Originating from a Shanghai Expo 2010 commission, Toki provides a theatrical application of Chen Kuan-hsing’s influential notion of “Asia as method.” As epitomized by the yearly One Table, Two Chairs …
Writing narrative style literature reviews
Reviews provide a synthesis of published literature on a topic and describe its current state-of-art. Reviews in clinical research are thus useful when designing studies or developing practice guidelines. The two standard types of reviews are (a) systematic and (b) non-systematic or narrative review. Unlike systematic reviews that benefit from guidelines such as PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement…
The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
The article examines the trope of the “death of the avant-garde” in the context of contemporary Chinese theatre. It addresses comparable “death discourses” such as the so-called theatre crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and critiques of “pseudo avant-gardism” that have been formulated with respect to the recent praxis of established experimentalists such as Beijing-based director and dramatist Meng Jinghui. The article argues that the Chin…
The Stage as a Drawing Board
The multimedia performances of the Architecture Is Art Festival explore the connections of architecture, theatre, and architecture in theatre to voice a number of concerns relating to heritage preservation and technological development, historical memory and current politics. The interrogatives raised by these performances are intimately connected with the ontology of Hong Kong identity and testify to the spirit of traveling—through cultures, med…
Disenchanted Presents, Haunted Pasts, and Dystopian Futures
Meng Jinghui's Chicken Poets (2002) presents a postmodern meditation on the state and fate of Chinese cultural production, intellectual discourse, and social relations at the turn of the century and the millennium. Albeit released two years after 2000, it retains symptomatic traits of the fin-de-siècle and millennial mentality and is therefore examined as an instance of ‘deferred’ or ‘residual’ millennialism. As typical of such narratives, it mer…
Journey(s)to the East-travels, trajectories, and transnational Chinese theatre(s)
The notion of transnationalism represents a key theoretical paradigm in most contemporary studies of Chinese-language literature, film, and the visual arts. Scholarship in Chinese-language theatre, however, is still largely shaped by national or mono-regional patterns of analysis and criticism. This article attempts to update such a framework by proposing the concept of transnational Chinese theatre(s) and tracing the contours of an expanding fie…
The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
The article examines the trope of the “death of the avant-garde” in the context of contemporary Chinese theatre. It addresses comparable “death discourses” such as the so-called theatre crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and critiques of “pseudo avant-gardism” that have been formulated with respect to the recent praxis of established experimentalists such as Beijing-based director and dramatist Meng Jinghui. The article argues that the Chin…
Journey(s)to the East-travels, trajectories, and transnational Chinese theatre(s)
The notion of transnationalism represents a key theoretical paradigm in most contemporary studies of Chinese-language literature, film, and the visual arts. Scholarship in Chinese-language theatre, however, is still largely shaped by national or mono-regional patterns of analysis and criticism. This article attempts to update such a framework by proposing the concept of transnational Chinese theatre(s) and tracing the contours of an expanding fie…
Journey(s)to the East-travels, trajectories, and transnational Chinese theatre(s)
The notion of transnationalism represents a key theoretical paradigm in most contemporary studies of Chinese-language literature, film, and the visual arts. Scholarship in Chinese-language theatre, however, is still largely shaped by national or mono-regional patterns of analysis and criticism. This article attempts to update such a framework by proposing the concept of transnational Chinese theatre(s) and tracing the contours of an expanding fie…
The Stage as a Drawing Board
The multimedia performances of the Architecture Is Art Festival explore the connections of architecture, theatre, and architecture in theatre to voice a number of concerns relating to heritage preservation and technological development, historical memory and current politics. The interrogatives raised by these performances are intimately connected with the ontology of Hong Kong identity and testify to the spirit of traveling—through cultures, med…
Disenchanted Presents, Haunted Pasts, and Dystopian Futures
Meng Jinghui's Chicken Poets (2002) presents a postmodern meditation on the state and fate of Chinese cultural production, intellectual discourse, and social relations at the turn of the century and the millennium. Albeit released two years after 2000, it retains symptomatic traits of the fin-de-siècle and millennial mentality and is therefore examined as an instance of ‘deferred’ or ‘residual’ millennialism. As typical of such narratives, it mer…
The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
The article examines the trope of the “death of the avant-garde” in the context of contemporary Chinese theatre. It addresses comparable “death discourses” such as the so-called theatre crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and critiques of “pseudo avant-gardism” that have been formulated with respect to the recent praxis of established experimentalists such as Beijing-based director and dramatist Meng Jinghui. The article argues that the Chin…
Writing narrative style literature reviews
Reviews provide a synthesis of published literature on a topic and describe its current state-of-art. Reviews in clinical research are thus useful when designing studies or developing practice guidelines. The two standard types of reviews are (a) systematic and (b) non-systematic or narrative review. Unlike systematic reviews that benefit from guidelines such as PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement…
Asian Theatre as Method
In 2012, Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong), Za-Koenji Public Theatre (Tokyo), and the Jiangsu Kun Opera Theatre (Nanjing) initiated the Toki Project, an intercultural platform devoted to the transmission of kunqu and noh through contemporary performance. Originating from a Shanghai Expo 2010 commission, Toki provides a theatrical application of Chen Kuan-hsing’s influential notion of “Asia as method.” As epitomized by the yearly One Table, Two Chairs …
Transnational Chinese Theatres Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. …
History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · China (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works)