MCLC: special MCLC issue on Hong Shen--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: special MCLC issue on Hong Shen--cfp
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Please spread the word about this call for papers to any scholars you know
who might be interested or forward to any relevant listservs. A Chinese
version follows the English cfp. For those of you who intend to submit an
essay, we'd be grateful if you could let the two guest editors and me know
of that intention ahead of time.

Kirk 

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MCLC SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
Hong Shen
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Guest Edited by Siyuan Liu and Xiaomei Chen
Deadline: March 1, 2015
http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/announcements/hongshen.htm

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is pleased to announce a Call for
Papers for a special issue on Hong Shen 洪深. Often considered a pioneer in
modern Chinese theatre and film, Hong Shen was an important agent in the
development of both fields, as a playwright/screenwriter,
translator/adaptor, director, educator, and theorist. However, compared to
Tian Han and Ouyang Yuqian, the other so-called huaju (spoken drama)
“founding fathers,” Hong Shen has received far less attention in both
scholarly studies and the general narrative of modern Chinese theatre, as
exemplified in the 2007 huaju centennial celebration. The case of Hong
Shen reveals much about the complex and fluid nature of the modern Chinese
cultural field in which intellectuals moved easily among different media
and negotiated positions often thought to be rigidly opposed:
progressive/popular; May Fourth/Butterfly; leftist/Nationalist;
modernity/tradition; and China/West.

In light of the 2011 publication of an extensively annotated chronicle by
his daughter Hong Qian and the 2013 Hong Shen Project at The Ohio State
University, which included a production of his play The Wedded Husband, a
screening of his film Xinjiu Shanghai (Shanghai Old and New), and the
symposium “Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in Republican Era China,”
this special issue seeks to reevaluate Hong Shen’s role in modern Chinese
cultural production. We invite original articles that provide new
perspectives on the following topics:

• His theatre studies and production experience in the United States
• His role in establishing the director-centered production system for
huaju
• His impact on huaju’s gender performance through his plays and
productions
• His role in the literary translation versus localized adaptation debate
in huaju translation and production
•  His role in early Chinese cinema, especially its transition from silent
to sound film
• His dramaturgy and its impact on realistic and modernist drama
• His contribution to theories of playwriting, performance and directing
for stage and film
• His complicated relationship with the left and right ideological
conflict and its key figures
• His interactions with various Republican era media
• His contribution to theatre education

The submission deadline is March 1st, 2015 (for a projected publication
date of Fall 2015). Please adhere to MCLC STYLE GUIDELINES. Send
electronic submissions to *both* guest editors, Siyuan Liu
(siyuan.liu at ubc.ca) and Xiaomei Chen (xmchen at ucdavis.edu), as well as to
MCLC Editor, Kirk Denton (denton.2 at osu.edu), and a paper copy with cover
letter to:

Kirk Denton 
Editor, MCLC 
Hagerty Hall 398 
The Ohio State University
1775 College Rd. 
Columbus, Ohio 43210-134
USA


美國《中國現代文學與文化》洪深專刊徵稿啟示
特約編輯劉思遠、陳小眉
投稿截止日期：2015年3月1日
 
 
美國《中國現代文學與文化》擬於2015年秋季出版洪深專刊，現開始徵集論文。洪深被公
認為現代中國戲劇電影先驅之一，對話劇和電影創作、翻譯和改譯、導演、教
育和理論等眾多領域的發展影響顯著。然而，無論從學術研究還是話劇大眾敘事的角度，
洪深的影響都遜于話劇另兩位「奠基人」田漢和歐陽予倩；後一點在話劇百年紀念
中得以印證。事實上，洪深作為個案，在很大程度上代表了現代中國文化領域的複雜性和
流動性，即知識份子輕鬆地穿梭于不同媒體和貌似不可調和的立場之間：先進/通
俗；五四/鴛鴦蝴蝶；左翼/國民黨；現代/傳統；中國/西方。

 
值得注意的是，洪深研究近年有了新的進展：2011年其女兒洪鈐發表《中國話劇電影先驅
洪深: 曆世編年紀》；2013年俄亥俄州立大學舉辦洪深紀念專題，公演
其話劇《為之有室》，放映他的電影《新舊上海》，主辦《洪深與民國現代媒體域》學術
研討會。本專刊旨在借此機會重新評估洪深在現代中國文化生產中的地位。我們歡
迎對以下主題提出新觀點的原創文章：

 
· 他在美國的戲劇學習及演出經歷
· 他對建立話劇以導演為中心的演出體系的貢獻
· 他通過劇作和導演對話劇性別表演的影響
· 他對話劇翻譯和演出中直譯與轉譯爭論的影響
· 他對早期中國電影，尤其是從無聲到有聲電影過渡的貢獻
· 他的話劇創作及其對現實主義和現代主義戲劇的影響
· 他對話劇和電影創作、表演和導演理論的貢獻
· 他與左、右翼意識形態衝突及其關鍵人物的複雜關係
· 他與民國各種媒體的關係
· 他對戲劇教育的貢獻

 
本專刊預計于2015年秋季出版，投稿截止日期為2015年3月1日。來稿請用英文，中文原稿
務必由專業人士翻譯成英文，遵循《中國現代文學與文化》論文格式
<http://mclc.osu.edu/jou/mclsubm.htm>. 電子版同時寄給兩位特約編輯劉思遠
(siyuan.liu at ubc.ca) 和陳小眉 (xmchen at ucdavis.edu)，以及《中國現代文學與文化》
主編 Kirk Denton 
(denton.2 at osu.edu)， 同時郵寄一份打印稿至下列位址

 
Kirk Denton 
Editor, MCLC 

Hagerty Hall 398 

The Ohio State University 

1775 College Rd. 

Columbus, Ohio
43210-134
USA