MCLC: TDR spring 2014

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Emily Wilcox <emily.elissa.wilcox at gmail.com>
Subject: TDR spring 2014
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Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce this important special issue on contemporary
Chinese performance that just appeared in TDR: the Drama Review last
month. You can find the complete table of contents below, which includes
new research on Chinese avant-garde theater, intercultural xiqu, and other
topics that may be of interest to MCLC members.

TDR is the flagship journal of performance studies, and this special issue
signals another important event taking place this year: PSi (Performance
Studies international) -- the largest global conference of performance
studies -- will be held in Shanghai this July 4-8, 2014 at the Shanghai
Theatre Academy. For more information on the conference, visit

http://www.psi-web.org/detail/posts/15190.

For TDR’s current issue: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/dram/58/1

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Best wishes,

Emily E. Wilcox (魏美玲)Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
International Research Fellow, Shanghai Theatre Academy 上海戏剧学院
http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eewilcox/


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T221 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ProvocationWhat is to be done?
by Mila Rau, designed by Nina Wolters/IIPM

Articles 
The third TDR Consortium issue is edited by William Huizhu Sun and takes
off from the theme of the Shanghai Theatre Academy’s Winter Institute,
Performing Shanghai, to consider Performing the World. It is not just an
expansion of geography, but a change of perspective: from seeing Shanghai
from the perspectives of the many cultures that have made up the city, to
looking at the world from the perspective of Shanghai.

Performing Shanghai and Beyond: An Introduction
by William Huizhu Sun

Theatre Building, Building Theatre: Fostering Disruption and Community
through Arts and Education
by Mary Schmidt Campbell

Performing Dream or Reality: The Dilemma of Chinese Community-Based
Theatre 
by Shen Liang 

Spiritual Farming: Performance at Shanghai’s Downstream Garage
by Michael Leibenluft and Maja–Stina Johansson Wang

Meaning in Movement: Adaptation and the Xiqu Body in Intercultural Chinese
Theatre 
by Emily E. Wilcox 

China’s Experimental Mainstream: The Badass Theatre of Meng Jinghui
by Claire Conceison

Queer Politics, Sexual Anarchism, and Nationalism: The Chinese Male Mother
and the Queer Family in He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother
by Ivy I-chu Chang 

Adaptation as Hospitality: Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013
Performance Series 
by Tarryn Li–Min Chun

Remembering and Reenacting Hunger: Caochangdi Workstation’s Minjian Memory
Project 
by Jiayun Zhuang 

Pieces 
Shalom Shanghai 
by William Huizhu Sun

Books 
Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History edited by Amelia Jones and
Adrian Heathfield 
Reviewed by Pannill Camp

Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross
Reviewed by John Bell

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and
Entanglements by Richard K. Sherwin
Reviewed by Branislav Jakovljević

Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical by Stacy Wolf
Reviewed by Colleen Rua

Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century by Kyla Wazana
Tompkins 
Reviewed by Dorothy Chansky

Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment, Goat
Island, Elevator Repair Service by Sara Jane Bailes
Reviewed by Claire MacDonald

Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media edited by Norie Neumark,
Ross Gibson, and Theo van Leeuwen
Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century by Andrew M. Kimbrough
Reviewed by Gelsey Bell

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by
Claire Bishop 
Reviewed by Kenn Watt