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Dr. WU Wan Yi PhD (Kyoto) Assistant Professor |
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Biographical Sketch
Wu Wan-yi is a researcher of classical Chinese drama. Her secondary specializations include history of Chinese literature, history of the Chinese theater, comparative study of Japanese and Chinese classical drama and gender studies. Now she is broadening the scope of my study from my doctoral research to the study of the development of the female theater.
Education
- Ph.D. in Humanities, Department of Studies in Cultural Coexistence, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
- M.A. in Drama Studies, Graduate School of Theatre Studies, Taipei National University of the Art, Taiwan
- B.S. in Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Teaching and Working Experiences
- 2020- Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 2016-2020 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 2014-2015 Research Assistant, National Chengchi University Social Sciences Information Center, Taiwan
- 2012-2013 Fulbright visiting scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University, USA
- 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Humanities Research, National Science Council, Taiwan
- 2011 Lecturer, Center for General Education, Aletheia University, Taiwan
- 2009-2010 Specially commissioned translator, Commercial Press, Taiwan
- 2006-2007 Specially commissioned translator, Department of Chinese Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan
- 2005-2008 Kyoto University 21Century CEO Program Researcher, Japan
University Service
- 2019 Organizer, The Tenth International Conference on Chinese Ancient Texts and Traditional Culture
- 2019- Library Liaison Officer
- 2018- Member, Board of Faculty of Humanities
- 2017- Member, Department Research Committee
- 2017-2019 Member, Department Staff Committee
- 2016- Member, Undergraduate Programme Committee
Fellowship / Scholarship Awarded
- 2012-2013 Fulbright Experience America Research Grant
- 2010-2011 Grant For Japan-related Research Project, Grant Program of the Sumitomo Foundation
- 2008-2009 Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship of Taiwan Association
- 2002-2004 Scholarship of Japan Interchange Association
Research Grants
- 2019-2020 The Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong
“The Establishment of a Model of Performance of Bangzi Opera and its Relationship with the Audio-Visual Media, 1911-1937” - 2017-2019 The Research Grants Council, Early Career Scheme (ECS) , Hong Kong
“Gender, Performance and Drama : A study of Female Theater in Beijing, 1911-1937” - 2018-2019 Dean’s Reserve for Research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University “The General Theory of Chinese Drama Researches in Japan between 1878 And 1930”
- 2017-2018 Internal Research Grant, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- 2012-2013 Fulbright Experience America Research Grant
- 2011 HRC Funding Guidelines for Academic Counseling for young Scholars, Taiwan
- 2010-2011 Grant for Japan-related Research Project, Grant Program of The Sumitomo Foundation. Awarded research project “Tsuji Chōka and Chinese theatre in the Late Qing and Early Republican China” studies Tsuji Chōka‘s writings and critiques on traditional Chinese operas to reconstruct the development of the Beijing Opera in this turbulent period.
- 2005-2008 Grant from the East Asian Humanities and Information Studies, Center of Excellence Program of the Twenty-First Century, Kyoto University, Japan.
Awards
- 2018 August
The Best Research Paper Award in Honor of Professor Xu Fuguan: the 35th volume of New Asia Journal (2018) 徐復觀最佳論文獎
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- 2020 July
“Between Enlightenment and Entertainment — The Improved Drama Practice of the Beijing Women's Opera Troupe Zhi De She in the Early Republic of China” Journal of Chinese Studies. [forthcoming] - 2019 b
“Bangzi Opera Performance and Gender Consciousness” Chinese Studies. [in progressing] - 2019 a
“How Did Female Characters Play by Female Actors in Beijing Opera? - The Genders and Performances in Beijing Opera Reviewed in Dramatic Criticisms Published by the Major Newspapers in Beijing between 1912 and 1920”. Soochow Journal of Chinese Studies [in progressing] - 2018
“The Rise of the female theater in Beijing from 1912 to1918-with a focus on the theater criticisms in Shuntian Shibao”New Asia Journal 35(August 2018):1-56. - 2013
“The Emergence of Modern Theatre Critique:the Shuntian Daily and Tsuji Choka” Journal of Theater Studies10 (July 2012):69-108. - 2009
“Warrior Women in Ming-Qing Dramas: Cases of Three Representative Plays.” TaoTie 17 (September 2009): 51-71. - 2008b
“Depicting Warrior Women in Chinese Traditional Drama of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.” Human and Environmental Studies 17 (December 2008): 39-49. - 2008a
“Female Audiences and their Theatergoing Ban in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.”
Kanji Cultural Studies Annual 3 (March 2008): 87-112. - “The Transformation of Female Images in the Drama Yuzanji.” Kanji Cultural Studies Annual 2 (March 2007): 77-100.
Conference Papers and Presentations
- 12 October 2019
“The Improved Drama Practice of the Beijing Women's Opera”, paper presented at The Tenth International Conference on Chinese Ancient Texts and Traditional Culture, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. - 27 August 2019
“The Variation in Singing styles of Clapper Opera, 1911-1937”, paper presented at The Fist International Conference on Chinese and East Asia Theater, Fukuoka: Kyuhsu University, Japan. - 14 October 2018
“Tsuji Chōka and Female theater in Beijing”, paper presented at The Ninth International Conference on Chinese Ancient Texts and Traditional Culture, Beijing: Beijing Normal University, China. - 2 September 2018
“Tsuji Chōka and Female theater”, paper presented at Memorial Symposium: Tsuji Chōka, 150 Years from Birth, Tokyo 2018, Kumamoto: Kumamoto University, Japan. - 8 October 2017
“How Did Female Characters Play by Female Actors in Beijing Opera? - The Genders and Performances in Beijing Opera Reviewed in dramatic criticisms published by the Major Newspapers in Beijing between 1912 and 1920”, paper presented at The sixty-ninth Sinological Society of Japan Annual conference, Yamagata 2017, Yamagata: Sinological Society of Japan, Japan. - 19 November 2016
“How women act women: Performance and opera within the Beijing community during 1900-1920.” Invited lecture for Seminars on Chinese History and Culture for Postgraduate Students in Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta Confucius Institute of Hong Kong. - 12 August 2014
Female theatre in the early Republic of China: Emergence and Evolution”Paper presented in the international conference on “Modern China in Global Context, 1600-Present” , The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. - 25 April 2013
“Female actors playing female characters: performance and gender in Beijing Opera,1912-1918” Invited speech in Harvard Chinese Culture Workshop, Harvard-Yenching Library, Cambridge, USA. - 04 April 2013
“The Rise and Development of Female Actors in Beijing, 1912-1918” Presented in the Fairbank Center Studies workshop Program on Topics in Cold War and East Asian Cultural Politics: Chinese Perspectives, Harvard University ,Cambridge, USA. - 14 October 2011
“The birth of Chinese modern dramatic criticism.” Presented in the Ljubljana University The 2nd International Conference on Specific Topics in Chinese Studies on ‘100 YEARS OF MODERN CHINA’, Slovenija, Ljubljana. - 09 May 2011
The birth of Chinese modern dramatic criticism.” Paper presented in Center for Humanities Research Young Scholar Symposium 2011. Taipei, Taiwan. - 26 August 2010
“On the Historical Viewpoint of a Japanese Connoisseur of Chinese Drama in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented in the Beijing University Postgraduate Candidates and Young Scholar Symposium on ‘The Living Tradition in the Present’. Beijing, China. - 18 November 2009
“Introduction to Japanese Traditional Performing Arts.” Invited speech, Wenshan Community College, Taipei, Taiwan. - 12 October 2008
“Depictions of Warrior Women in Feng Menglong’s Plays.” Paper presented in the Sixtieth Annual Conference of the Sinological Society of Japan, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. - 13 October 2007
“Female Audiences and their Theatergoing Ban in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.” Paper presented in the Seminar of East Asian Humanities and Information Studies, Center of Excellence Program of the Twenty-First Century, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. - 04 November 2006
“Women and Theatre in Ming and Qing Dynasties: on Banning Woman from Theatergoing”. Paper presented in the Symposium of East Asian Humanities and Information Studies, Center of Excellence Program of the Twenty-First Century, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. - 01 October 2005
“Pursuing Love and Aware of Love: the Transformation of Female Images in the Play Yuzanji”. Paper presented in the Symposium of East Asian Humanities and Information Studies, Center of Excellence Program of the Twenty-First Century, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Publish Plan
- Developing a book on the development of Beijing female theater during 1903-1935.
Dram Criticism
- ‘Talking about Queen Xiao-Zhung and Dorgan’.Guoguang opera art news.10 September , 2019.
Translation Works
- 吳宛怡譯，小和田哲男著，《惡人列傳：25名創造日本史的惡人》，台北：商務印書館，2011年。