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X-WR-CALNAME:EASC Guest Speaker Series: Media as Method: New Perspectives o
 n Early Modern Chinese Drama - Talk by Yinghui Wu
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DESCRIPTION:Media as Method: New Perspectives on Early Modern Chinese Drama
  \nMonday\, November 17\, 2025 | 2:00PM-3:20PM | DML 240 | RSVP\n\nEASC Gu
 est Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Yinghui Wu (UCLA) with Faculty Moderator
  Prof. Mengxiao Wang (EALC 145: Introduction to Chinese Culture\, Art and 
 Literature) \n \n\nHow was drama experienced in early modern China? It was
  not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage\, but operated 
 in a media ecology—an environment in which it integrated other arts and 
 media while being refashioned in a variety of arts and media. Yinghui Wu's
  new book takes us beyond the page-stage dichotomy in drama studies to exp
 lore a wide range of cultural experimentation that it collectively terms 
 “playing with plays:” the theatricality embedded in commentary\, the p
 oetic and visual imagination arising from drama illustrations\, the intera
 ctions between reading and singing arias\, the imbrication of reading play
 s and practicing religion\, and the ludic act of writing playful essays on
  drama. \n       \n\nWu develops a synthetic inquiry into these disparate 
 phenomena by bringing them into dialogues with the heuristic potential of 
 media theory. In this talk\, she will offer a new model for thinking about
  drama history through a critical reflection on medium/media as historical
 ly specific and broader than modern mass media technology. The talk will a
 lso present specific case studies that explore the entwinement of plays an
 d different forms of media in shaping perception\, molding experience\, an
 d enabling new subject positions to emerge in early modern China. \n\nThis
  event is co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Library.
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, 240
SUMMARY:EASC Guest Speaker Series: Media as Method: New Perspectives on Ear
 ly Modern Chinese Drama - Talk by Yinghui Wu
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