Shen Lin
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A professor at China’s Central Academy of Drama, Shen Lin is also a writer, translator and theatre curator. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe and North America. He has been a recipient of British Council and Chinese Education Commission scholarships, Folger Shakespeare Library’s fellowships, the State Council Special Grant for Contribution to Culture and Art, the Ministry of Education’s Millennium Endowments for Leading Scholars, as well as the China Drama Awards (for theory and criticism). His publications span intercultural performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary theatre. He has created a number of acclaimed productions in China since the early 1990s, and curated the “International Theatre Showcase Beijing” from 1998 to 2002 and the “Shakespeare and Contemporary Stage Masters” event in 2006-2007. He consults some of China’s leading performance institutions on their visiting productions.
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A professor at China’s Central Academy of Drama, Shen Lin is also a writer, translator and theatre curator. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe and North America. He has been a recipient of British Council and Chinese Education Commission scholarships, Folger Shakespeare Library’s fellowships, the State Council Special Grant for Contribution to Culture and Art, the Ministry of Education’s Millennium Endowments for Leading Scholars, as well as the China Drama Awards (for theory and criticism). His publications span intercultural performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary theatre. He has created a number of acclaimed productions in China since the early 1990s, and curated the “International Theatre Showcase Beijing” from 1998 to 2002 and the “Shakespeare and Contemporary Stage Masters” event in 2006-2007. He consults some of China’s leading performance institutions on their visiting productions.
January 12, 2016
In this interview, Shen Lin, the Chinese Professor for Theater Studies, Deputy Head of Research at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Chief Editor of The Drama Journal, writer and translator, is introducing his research project "The Formal and the Political in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Performances.“ Shen Lin speaks about the dominant role of Shakespeare as a global theater figure, as well as – in a very personal manner – about his own project’s connection to the Center’s fields of research. En passent, he gives important insights into his work as a cultural consultant for China’s leading performance organizations. Surprisingly clearly, he finally discusses the question of how "political" theater can be in China...