BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13520-8a71d2fb9f067318eeebf3f6a5630cef@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260501T182728Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121105T130000 SUMMARY:Daphne Lei: Talk at the Comparative Literature Luncheon DESCRIPTION:\nLei is an associate professor in the Department of Drama a t University of California\, Irvine. Her work focuses the ways in which gender and ethnic identities are enacted and nuanced in intercultural pe rformance. In particular\, she examines intercultural exchanges along th e Pacific Rim and negotiations between Asian and non-Asian cultures thro ugh a powerful combination of literary\, theatre studies\, women’s studi es and anthropological approaches.\n\nHer first book Operatic China: Sta ging Identity Across the Pacific explores theatre and identity performan ce in the contact zones of late Qing political reforms and actors’ rebel lions in China\, the nineteenth-century Gold Mountain Chinatown of the B ay Area\, and Chinese Americans’ amateur opera performance. Her second book Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Z ero examines tensions between local and global productions of experiment al theatrical forms around the Pacific Rim.\n\nFor more details: https:/ /events.la.psu.edu/event/daphne-lei-talk/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lei is an assoc iate professor in the Department of Drama at University of California, I rvine. Her work focuses the ways in which gender and ethnic identities a re enacted and nuanced in intercultural performance. In particular, she examines intercultural exchanges along the Pacific Rim and negotiations between Asian and non-Asian cultures through a powerful combination of l iterary, theatre studies, women’s studies and anthropological approaches .

Her first book Operatic China: Staging Identity Across the P acific explores theatre and identity performance in the contact zon es of late Qing political reforms and actors’ rebellions in China, the n ineteenth-century Gold Mountain Chinatown of the Bay Area, and Chinese A mericans’ amateur opera performance. Her second book Alternative Ch inese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero examines t ensions between local and global productions of experimental theatrical forms around the Pacific Rim.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event /daphne-lei-talk/

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