Doctoral Candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures
About
My research primarily focuses on drama and theater, literature, and intellectual history in early modern China. I am additionally interested in media studies and performance studies. My dissertation explores the relations amongst literary texts, musical sound, and performance space of chuanqi, a dramatic genre that comprises dialogues, arias, and role types and was enacted in various theatrical traditions, in the late Ming and early Qing period (from around 1550 to around 1710). In developing an interdisciplinary methodology that draws attention to performance aspects of chuanqi in addition to literary analyses, my dissertation aspires to excavate new understandings of not only drama and theater but also of media and technology in late Ming and early Qing China. My side projects touch upon theater as well as theater reform in China in the first half of the twentieth century. I am the recipient of a 2020-21 Barbour Scholarship funded by the University of Michigan.
Languages (other than English):
- Mandarin Chinese
- Classical Chinese
- Japanese
- Cantonese
