March 22, 2019. “Science on Screen: Visual Truth and Pedagogical Storytelling in China’s Early Educational Films,”

3:45 PM – 5:30 PM, Governor’s Square 10, Plaza Bldg., Concourse Level

Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Denver, Colorado

Panel 171: Two-part Panel: Animating Chinese Scripts in Transmedia Milieux: Part I: Design and Reconstruction of Script

• Wei Ren, “Writing Characters is Drawing Pictures: The Chinese Script as Language for Modern Design”
• Lu Liu, “Science on Screen: Visual Truth and Pedagogical Storytelling in China’s Early Educational Films” 
• Paul Manfredi, “Word-to-Image: Visual Statements of Contemporary Chinese Poets”
• Lina Qu, “Performing the Women’s Script: Nüshu and the Imagined Female Utopia”

Panel 207, Two-part Panel: Animating Chinese Scripts in Transmedia Milieux: Part II: Performance and Political Participation

• Man He, “Script to See: Spectatorial Subjects and Cosmopolitan Dramatists in Chinese Realist Theatres of the 1910s-1920s”
• Renren Yang, “National Form as Spreadable Script: The Performative Turn and Creative Mimesis in Zhao Shuli’s Socialist Fictions”
• Nan Ma, From Script to Dance: The Adaptation of a Traditional Chinese Play in the “New Dance Movement” in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan and China