An Extraordinary Game: What’s so good about Peking Opera? 了不起的游戏: 京剧到底好在哪儿?

A conversation (in Chinese) with authors Guo Baochang 郭宝昌 (theater, film and television director) and Tao Qingmei 陶庆梅 (theater scholar)

 

与郭宝昌、陶庆梅谈京剧美学

 

时间：

 

November 12 (Friday), 8-10pm (Eastern Time)/November 13 (Saturday), 9-11am (Beijing Time)

 

11月12日（周五），晚8-10点（美东时间）/11月13日（周六），早9-11点（北京时间）

 

CGC official website：
https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/events-beijing/extraordinary-game-whats-so-good-about-peking-opera

 

Registration link for the audience outside China：
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-extraordinary-game-whats-so-good-about-peking-opera-tickets-204263817577

 

Registration link for the audience based in China:  https://www.wjx.top/vj/es3vw1y.aspx.

 

Sponsored by: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC), Weatherhead East Asia Institute (WEAI), Center for Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

 

Event synopsis:

 

This event features an important recent publication on the theories and practices of Peking opera, written by Guo Baochang and Tao Qingmei. Guo is a leading director whose creative career has spanned four decades and whose work has innovatively engaged with multiple media (opera, spoken drama, film and television). A life-long lover and practitioner of Peking Opera, Guo in this book explores Peking opera as history, philosophy, practice and experience, offering new paradigms to understand Peking opera as both rooted in broader Chinese aesthetic traditions, and as embodied and reflexive practices by practitioners who work daily on the theater stage. Tao is a prolific scholar of Chinese drama in modern and contemporary times, whose intellectual work on drama is productively complemented by her long-standing engagement as a critic and educator in China’s flourishing contemporary theater scene. Besides the two authors, we bring together an outstanding group of scholars working on pre-modern and modern Chinese literature and theater, and on broader media cultures including film, performance art and new media. The panel will begin with a conversation between the renowned author and critic Li Tuo with Guo and Tao, and proceed with comments and reflections from Gu Shuguang (Renmin), Judith Zeitlin (Chicago), Weihong Bao (Berkeley), Shang Wei (Columbia) and all other participants. This event will be conducted in Chinese only.

 

本次活动围绕郭宝昌与陶庆梅两位作者撰写的《了不起的游戏: 京剧到底好在哪儿?  》

一书展开讨论。郭宝昌先生为中国著名导演，在四十年的艺术生涯中，运用戏曲、话剧、电影和电视多种媒介进行创作，成果丰硕。作为京剧的终生爱好者和实践者，郭宝昌先生在本书中将京剧作为历史、哲学、实践和经验进行了探索，既植根于中国广阔的美学传统，又发掘了从业者身体力行的舞台实践和经验，为理解京剧美学提供了新的范式。陶庆梅不仅是研究现当代中国戏剧的多产学者，也作为评论者和教育者长期参与了中国当代戏剧的蓬勃发展和创作。除了两位作者之外，我们还汇集了一批杰出的学者。他们致力于研究中国文学和戏剧，以及包括电影、表演艺术和新媒体在内的更广泛的媒体文化。小组讨论将从著名作家和评论家李拓与郭宝昌和陶庆梅的对话开始，然后由谷曙光教授（人民大学）、蔡九迪教授（芝加哥）、包卫红教授（伯克利）、商伟教授（哥伦比亚）与所有其他参与的教授学者参与评论和讨论。本次活动以中文进行。

 

Participants (in alphabetical order)

参会者（排名按英文姓氏先后）

 

Weihong BAO 包卫红 (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Shuguang GU 谷曙光 (Renmin University)

 

Ling Hon LAM 林凌翰 (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Tuo LI 李陀 (Columbia University)

 

Jingzhi Liu 刘净植 (Moveable Type)

 

Lydia H Liu 刘禾 (Columbia University)

 

Yue MENG 孟悦 (University of Toronto)

 

Ying QIAN 钱颖 (Columbia University)

 

Anne E. Rebull (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

 

Wei SHANG 商伟 (Columbia University)

 

Ling ZHANG  张泠 (State University of New York, Purchase College)

 

Judith Zeitlin 蔡九迪 (University of Chicago)