Beijing Opera • China

Tuesday, February 03, 2015
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library Room 11360 

讲演流程

讲解：“何为京剧？”（孙萍、叶金森）

讲解与展示：中国京剧的表演特色赏析（孙萍、叶金森）

互动环节：京剧服装与基本身段（邵振坤）

彩唱剧目：《野猪林》“大雪飘”（叶金森）

讲解：中国戏曲之源流（尹玉璐）

彩唱剧目：《贵妃醉酒》（孙萍、叶金森等）

Lecture Outline

What is Beijing Opera? （Prof. Sun Ping, Mr. Ye Jinsen）

The characteristics of Beijing Opera performance （Prof. Sun Ping, Mr. Ye Jinsen）

Interaction：Costume and figure of Beijing Opera  （Mr. Shao Zhenkun）

Episode performance：The Forest of Wild Boars  （Mr. Ye Jinsen）

The origin of Chinese Theatre Art  （Miss. Yin Yulu）

Episode performance：The Drunken Beauty  （Prof. Sun Ping, Mr. Ye Jinsen,etc.） 
 

孙萍教授
著名京剧表演艺术家，中国国家一级演员，中华人民共和国全国政治协商会议第十、十一、十二届全国委员会委员、外事委员会委员，中国人民大学国剧研究中心主任，北京外国语大学艺术研究院院长，国际戏剧家协会会员。
2007年起，出任中国人民大学国剧研究中心执行主任、北京外国语大学艺术研究院院长，致力于京剧表演理论体系的研究与完善，先后主编了《中国京剧百部经典英译》系列丛书、《富连成画传》等著作，获得多项国家级大奖。

Sun Ping is a Beijing Opera performing artist, a national first-class actress, a member of the international Dramatists Association and of 10th-12th China’s National Political Consultative Conference as well as Foreign Affairs Committee, Dean of the Art Research School of Beijing Foreign Studies University, Executive director of the Research Institute on Chinese National Opera at Renmin University.

In 2007, Ms. Sun Ping was appointed the dean of the Art Research School at Beijing Foreign Studies University and executive director of the Research Institute on Chinese National Operas at Renmin University of China, aiming at the research and improvement of Beijing Opera performing theory.

Early Chinese Daybooks and the Question of Textual Genre

Thursday, February 05, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383

Recently excavated early Chinese manuscripts have revealed that texts known as rishu（“daybooks”）circulated widely in the Chinese cultural sphere during the late Warring States, Qin, and Western Han periods（ca. 3rd – 1st centuries BCE）.  While primarily concerned with practical methods of selecting auspicious times and places for a variety of activities in daily life – activities such as travel, marriage, planting crops, seeking an audience, or burying the dead – the manuscripts also tended to incorporate a range of other miscellaneous contents with the result that no two daybooks are precisely alike.  In this talk, I will introduce select passages from daybook manuscripts with an emphasis on the links and divisions between different forms of knowledge circulating in the formative years of the Chinese Empire, and I will consider aspects of the historical context which may help to explain how daybooks manifest as a coherent textual genre.

Ethan Harkness teaches at NYU Gallatin and writes about early Chinese culture with an emphasis on technical topics that inform the histories of science and religion. In his methodological approach to research, he also makes extensive use of excavated manuscripts to supplement historical perspectives derived from the transmitted textual tradition. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Cosmology and the Quotidian：Day Books in Early China,” analyzes a type of almanac that circulated widely in the Chinese cultural sphere between the late fourth century and the late first century BCE. For over ten years, Professor Harkness lived in Taiwan, where in addition to academic research, he actively pursued a number of interests, including bicycle touring and the Chinese strategy game of weiqi.