- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Shifting Views of Shanghai: Changing China, Changing Lives'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 10/02/2005 - 10/02/2005
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518
- Description: Artists-at-Work Series
Haiping Yan, Theatre, Film and Television, UCLA
- Detailed Information: Haiping Yan is Professor of Critical Studies and Director of UCLA’s China-US Media and Performance Programs. She holds the Zijiang Chair Professorship of the Arts and Humanistic Studies at East China Normal University, Shanghai. Her specialities include 20th century Asian, European, and sub-Saharan African dramas, critical theory, and transnational performance studies. Her new book on performance of transnationalisms and intellectual praxis will be published by the UM Press. She received China’s 1980-1981 First Prize for Excellence in Drama (the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) for her historical play titled Li Shimin, Prince of Qin, and CNN’s 1999 selection as one of “six most influential Chinese cultural figures” for her scholarly and creative works.
This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition Shifting Views: Chinese Urban Dcumentary Photography (Sept. 12- Oct. 21, 2005).
