William H Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 4975822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Huizhu Sun is Professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy and a Consortium Editor of TDR. He is Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau of Theatre Schools, UNESCO ITI. His recent Chinese books are Theatre in Construction and Deconstruction (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2006), Conflicts on Stage and Clash of Civilizations (The Commercial Press, 2006), What to Imitate? What to Express? (Baijia Publishing House, 2009), and Social Performance Studies (The Commercial Press, 2009). He has published over... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Social Performance Studies
Social performance studies is a new brand of performance studies with Chinese characteristics, focusing on actions performed outside of the theatre, and especially on professional activities meant to have definite effects on particular recipients and spectators
Performing Arts and Cultural Identity in the Era of Interculturalism
June 01 2009 Performing Arts and Cultural Identity in the Era of Interculturalism Huizhu Sun, Huizhu Sun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar William Sun William Sun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Huizhu Sun William Sun Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 2009 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 TDR/The Dra…
Power and Problems of Performance across Ethnic Lines, An Alternative Approach to Nontraditional Casting
Nontraditional casting has long been of interest to TDR. Here Contributing Editor Sun argues that expanding job opportunities for nonwhite actors is only part of the situation. Another aspect includes asking when, if ever, ought roles written for people-of-color be played by actors of other ethnicities
Performative Politics and International Media
In fall issue of 1990, TDR published a reader's letter, No Secret Politics in U.S.? from Anthony T. Speranza. Speranza argued, the opposition you make between situation in China and 'power of media' and openness in 'the West' misses mark badly. [...Y]ou contribute to what might be called 'the myth of transparency' in journalistic monitoring of our government (1990:15). Although this was a misreading of Comment's point, which did refer to Western …
Masks or Faces Re-Visited
Masks or Faces is a phrase William Archer used to title his I888 book on the psychology of the actor. His Ibsenian argument, that emotion and passion genuinely change the actor's face, left little room for the metaphorical mask, let alone real masks onstage. Nowadays, although the literal use of real masks, or faces with masklike makeup, have become commonplace, the emphasis has shifted to the psychology of characters and the social and cultural …
Tradition, Innovation, and Politics
"Stories of Mulberry Village" and the End of Modern Chinese Theatre
In early I988, a new play in Beijing engrossed theatregoers and professionals so much that all notable Beijing theatre critics and cultural officials unanimously believed that the ten-year experimentation, following the end of the Cultural Revolution, had finally ushered modem Chinese theatre into a new era of maturity and prosperity. Based on Zhu Xiaoping's three related novellas about hardship and struggles in a village in northern China, this …
The Colored Theatre in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, September I99o-June I99I-The Colored Museum is the play that first won George C. Wolfe fame not only in New York but in Los Angeles in 1988. In the I990/91 season Wolfe, in his premiere ofJelly's LastJam at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, portrayed a man spending his life de-coloring himself: Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton who historically denied his blackness. Nevertheless, this was the most talked about black show in town, with only two …
Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979
Between Chinese Theatre and Western Theatre
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Between Chinese Theatre and Western Theatre
Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979
The Colored Theatre in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, September I99o-June I99I-The Colored Museum is the play that first won George C. Wolfe fame not only in New York but in Los Angeles in 1988. In the I990/91 season Wolfe, in his premiere ofJelly's LastJam at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, portrayed a man spending his life de-coloring himself: Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton who historically denied his blackness. Nevertheless, this was the most talked about black show in town, with only two …
Masks or Faces Re-Visited
Masks or Faces is a phrase William Archer used to title his I888 book on the psychology of the actor. His Ibsenian argument, that emotion and passion genuinely change the actor's face, left little room for the metaphorical mask, let alone real masks onstage. Nowadays, although the literal use of real masks, or faces with masklike makeup, have become commonplace, the emphasis has shifted to the psychology of characters and the social and cultural …
Tradition, Innovation, and Politics
"Stories of Mulberry Village" and the End of Modern Chinese Theatre
In early I988, a new play in Beijing engrossed theatregoers and professionals so much that all notable Beijing theatre critics and cultural officials unanimously believed that the ten-year experimentation, following the end of the Cultural Revolution, had finally ushered modem Chinese theatre into a new era of maturity and prosperity. Based on Zhu Xiaoping's three related novellas about hardship and struggles in a village in northern China, this …
Performative Politics and International Media
In fall issue of 1990, TDR published a reader's letter, No Secret Politics in U.S.? from Anthony T. Speranza. Speranza argued, the opposition you make between situation in China and 'power of media' and openness in 'the West' misses mark badly. [...Y]ou contribute to what might be called 'the myth of transparency' in journalistic monitoring of our government (1990:15). Although this was a misreading of Comment's point, which did refer to Western …
Power and Problems of Performance across Ethnic Lines, An Alternative Approach to Nontraditional Casting
Nontraditional casting has long been of interest to TDR. Here Contributing Editor Sun argues that expanding job opportunities for nonwhite actors is only part of the situation. Another aspect includes asking when, if ever, ought roles written for people-of-color be played by actors of other ethnicities
Performing Arts and Cultural Identity in the Era of Interculturalism
June 01 2009 Performing Arts and Cultural Identity in the Era of Interculturalism Huizhu Sun, Huizhu Sun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar William Sun William Sun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Huizhu Sun William Sun Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 2009 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 TDR/The Dra…
Social Performance Studies
Social performance studies is a new brand of performance studies with Chinese characteristics, focusing on actions performed outside of the theatre, and especially on professional activities meant to have definite effects on particular recipients and spectators
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