Selected Talks and Conference Papers

“變臉與變性：京劇在國際舞台上的呈現” (Face and gender metamorphosis:  Beijing Opera on the world Stage).  京劇與中國文化傳統：第二屆京劇學國際學術研討會 (Beijing Opera and Chinese Cultural Traditions:  the Second Beijing Opera Conference).  The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.  Beijing, China, May, 2007 (lecture in Chinese).

“Haunted by Shakespeare:  Performance of Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities” (陰魂不散的莎士比亞：種族、文化與國家認同的表演)
NTU Shakespeare Forum
Department of Drama and Theatre and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December, 2006 (lecture in Chinese and English)

“Staging Transnational Chinese Capital for the Local American Audience”
Seminar Paper.  American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference, Chicago, November, 2006

“黃金夢今與昔：華人戲劇在美國的發展” (The golden dream now and then: development of Chinese drama in America”)
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, October, 2006 (lecture in Chinese)

“Staging the Hyphen: Negotiating Asian and American on Stage”
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, October, 2006

“Whose Asia Is This? Local Identity and Pan-Asian Aesthetics on the Global Stage”
(Panel organizer: “Locating Asia on the Globe”)
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) Conference
Helsinki, Finland, August, 2006.

“Fake Women, Fake Community: Gender and Cantonese Opera in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco”
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference
Atlanta, March, 2006.

“The Right Way to Be Chinese: Theatricalized Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China”
Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference
Washington D.C., December, 2005.

“Transparent Mask: Chinese Opera on the Asian American Stage”
Third Asia Pacific Arts Forum (APAF)
Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, October, 2005.

“Flirting with Americans: Bridging the Asian and Asian American”
(Panel organizer: “Beyond Authenticity: Asian Theatre as Bridge”)
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference
San Francisco, July, 2005.

“Picante or Szechuan? Acquiring a Taste for Ethnic Performance”
Seminar Co-organizer (with Jorge Huerta and Nadine Graves-George)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference
Las Vegas, November, 2004.

"Asia Skin Deep: Intercultural Performance in Tattoos"
Performance Studies International (PSI) Conference
Singapore Management University, Singapore, June, 2004 .

"Opera Americana: the Development of an American Taste for Cantonese Opera in the San Francisco Bay Area"
Chinese Opera Performance: the Past, Present and Future Development Conference
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May, 2004.

“A New Virtual Chinatown: A Study of Cantonese Opera in the Bay Area”
(Panel organizer: “Why Don’t You Live in Chinatown? A Study of Border-Crossing and Border-Formation for Chinese Diaspora”)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference
New York, March, 2003.

“Remember to Forget: A Study of Chinese Opera Performance and Paratheatricality in the Bay Area”
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference
San Diego, November, 2001.

“Imagining a Transnational Frontier: A Study of Chinese Immigrant Theatre in California in the Nineteenth Century” (Plenary Paper)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference
New York, November, 2000.

“Bandit Heroes Come to the Rescue: Anti-Modernization and Anti-Westernization in Local Drama at the Turn of the Century”
(Panel organizer: “Passion, Hatred, Western Playboys and Chinese Bandits: the Western Impact on Twentieth-Century Chinese Theatre”)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference
San Diego, March, 2000.

“Real Chinese Playing ‘Real’ Chinese on and off Stage: the Ban on Cantonese Opera and Its Effects at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference
Washington D.C., November, 1998.

“Doubling the Marginalization, Doubling the Pleasure: Bestializing Barbarians in Chinese Local Drama at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference
Washington D.C., March, 1998.

“Vulgarity Rescues the Nation: Gender, Ethnic, and Artistic Conflicts in Chinese Local Drama” (Plenary Paper)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference
San Antonio, November, 1997.

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