International Symposium on Culture and Music of China's Cultural Revolution 

中國文化大革命中的文化與音樂專題國際研討會


April 12, 2013(Friday)

Conference Room, University Service Centre for China Studies, 8/F, Tin Ka Ping Building

Theme: Model Peking Operas & their Transplantations

8:30am – 9:00am

Registration

9:00am – 9:30am

Opening Remark

LAI Chi Tim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

GAO Qi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

TSAI Tsan Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

9:30am – 11:00am

The Dragon River Reaches the Borders: the Rehabilitation of Ethnic Music in Model Opera

Rowan PEASE, SOAS, University of London

The West is Red: The Uyghur Adaptation of Qizil Chiragh (Red Lantern) during China's Cultural Revolution

Chuen-Fung WONG, Macalester College

Chairperson: LEE Ou-fan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

11:00am – 11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30am – 1:00pm

National Development, Internationalism, and Third World Cinema in the Cultural Revolution

Ban WANG, Stanford University

 

Sonic Imaginary after Cultural Revolution

Nancy Yunhwa RAO, Rutgers University

 

Chairperson: WANG Shaoguang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lunch 

2:30pm – 4:45pm

Breaking Bad: The Body, the Voice, and the Villain in Amateur Performance of Yangbanxi

Laurence CODERRE, University of California, Berkeley

The Making of Revolutionary Cantonese Operas during the Cultural Revolution

PANG Laikwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Chairperson: YU Siu Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

4:45pm – 5:30pm

General Discussion


April 13, 2013 (Saturday)

Conference Room, University Service Centre for China Studies, 8/f, Tin Ka Ping Building

Theme: Music, Dance and Film

9:30am – 11:00am

The Color Scheme of Three Revolutionary Epics in Socialist China (1964-2006): Red Legend, Grey Performance, or Black Restoration to Capitalism

Xiaomei CHEN, University of California, Davis


Singing in the Dark: Film and Cultural Revolution Musical Culture

Paul CLARK, University of Auckland

 

Chairperson: WU Ka Ming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

11:00am – 11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30am – 1:30pm

Enjoying Propaganda Art:The Aesthetic Experience of Cultural Revolution Music

Barbara MITTLER, University of Heidelberg

 

Making the Confucianist Meditative Tool into the Maoist Revolutionary Weapon? The Chinese Seven-stringed Zither Qin in the Era of Cultural Revolution

TSAI Tsan Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Chairperson: Denise HO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lunch

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Jiang Qing's View on Art and Its Embodiment in the Model Operas

DAI Jiafang, Central Conservatory of Music

 

Musical-dramatic Experimentation in the Yangbanxi: A Case for Precedence in the Great Wall

John WINZENBURG, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Chairperson: TSAI Tsan-Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong?

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Closing Discussion

 

Chairperson: Rachel HARRIS, SOAS, University of London