Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. Freedom

Faye Chunfang Fei is Director of the Center for American Studies at East China Normal University, where she is also a Professor, and Director of the Confucius Institute at China Institute in New York City. Her publications include Chinese Theories of Theatre and Performance from Confucius to the Present (University of Michigan Press, 1999), and she has been awarded fellowships by the NEH (USA), British Academy, ALFP (Japan), SSFC (China), and ACC (USA). [email protected]

William Huizhu Sun is Professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy and a Consortium Editor of TDR. He is Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau of Theatre Schools, UNESCO ITI. His recent Chinese books are Theatre in Construction and Deconstruction (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2006), Conflicts on Stage and Clash of Civilizations (The Commercial Press, 2006), What to Imitate? What to Express? (Baijia Publishing House, 2009), and Social Performance Studies (The Commercial Press, 2009). He has published over 140 Chinese and English papers in China, the US, Canada, and the UK. His plays include Old B Hanging on the Wall, Tomorrow He'll Be Out of the Mountains, Gods and the Good Woman, Queue, and Shalom Shanghai, and among his directing credits are The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Medea, Line, The Visit, and Shalom Shanghai. [email protected]