Dr. Katherine Hui-ling Chou
Education:
Ph.D. Performance Studies, Tisch School of Arts, New York
Univ. 1997
M.A. Performance Studies, Tisch School of Arts, New York
Univ. 1989
B.A. English Dept., Fu Jen Univ. 1986
Research
Areas:
Cultural Policies on Arts,
Gender Performance and Performativity,
Performance Studies on Star Discourse
Professional Appointments:
Academic:
Project Director of Black Box Performance Center at NCU,
2011~
Chair of English Dept., NCU, 2010~
Professor, English Dept. NCU, 2011~
Consultant for “Staging China,” the White Rose East Asian
Center in UK, 2012~
Editorial Committee, Theatre Studies (THCI-core journal), 2008~
Editorial Committee, Arts Review (THCI), 2011~
Associate Professor, English Dept. NCU, 1998-2011
Director of Digital Archive of Taiwan Modern Theatre (ETITW.COM), 2003~
Coordinator of Research Center for Theatre and Performance
Studies, NCU, 2003~
Associate Professor, General Education, National Yang Ming
Univ., 1997-1998
Associate Professor, Theatre Dept. National Taipei Univ. of
Arts，1997-1999
Theatre:
Playwright/director, Theatre Ensemble of Creative Society (CS),
2000~
Co-Founder, Creative Society Theatre Troupe, 1997~2006
Academic Honors and Awards:
Univ. Outstanding Research Award, NCU, 2005, 2009, 2010,
2011.
Univ. Outstanding Teaching Award, NCU, 2009.
Outstanding Research Award of College of Liberal Arts, NUC,
2007, 2008.
Research Fellow, Research Center for Liberal Arts, NCU, 2005
Research Award, National Science Council, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, New York Univ., 1997.
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Publications (partial)：
(A) Refereed Book：
1. Performing China: Actresses, Performance Culture, and Visual Politics, 19101945. (Taipei: Rye Field Publishing, 2004)
(B) Chapters in Refereed Book：
2. “Cultural Narratives, Tourist Behavior and Invented Tradition: A Comparative
Study of the Cultural Performances in Bali and the Bunun Tribe,” Ed. by Su
Shuobin. Traveler with Gaze: The Tourist Culture in Modern China and Taiwan.
(Taipei: National Yang Ming Univ. Press 2012)
3. “On Tian Qinxin: An Era of Director or Producer?” Eds. By Li Ruru & Suan
Daniels. Spoken Drama Productions in Millenium: Theatrical Encounter with
Politics, Society and Culture (Working title, forthcoming 2013).
4. “Acting and Beyond: the Queer Stardom and Body Enactment of ‘Leslie
Cheung’,” in Gender and Chinese Cinema: New Interventions, eds., by Mary
Ann Doane and Wang Lingzhen. (NY: Columbia Univ. Press, forthcoming 2012)
5. “Cultural Policies Reconsidered: A Comparative Study on ‘Creative Industry’ in
China and Taiwan”, in After the Heteroglosia: 2006 Conference on Modern
Theatre in Taiwan, eds. by Lin Heyi and Chi Weiran. (Taipei: National Univ.
Press, 2008), pp. 1-35.
6. “Flapper and Femme Fatale and in Chinese Mirror: An Intercultural Studies of
‘Star Discourse’ in the 1930s Hollywood and Chinese Film Industries,” Voices
amid Silence (III): Women and the Culture in Modern China (1600-1950), eds.
By Lo Jiu-jung, Lu Miaw-fen (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica,
2003), pp. 243-300.
(C) Refereed Journal Papers：
7. (2013 Forthcoming). “Changing Cultural Policy in Taiwan and New Model of
Theatre Imagined,” Journal of Modern British and American Drama.
8. “Reconsidering Role-creating and Beijing Opera’s Acting Convention: Ten-year
Experimentations of Guoguang Jingju Troupe, 2000-2010,” in Newsletter of the
Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (vol. 21, no. 1, March 2011),
(Academia Sinica), pp. 51-60.
9. “Performing Self, Enacting Memory: Ku Cheng-chiu’s Three Biographies, and
Women’s Remedy for War,” in Research on Women in Modern Chinese History,
(vol. 17, Dec. 2009), eds. by Huang Ko-wu and Yu Chien-ming (Institute of
Modern History, Academia Sinica), pp. 1-30.
10. “The Queer Stardom and Body Enactment of ‘Leslie Cheung’,” in Journal of
Theatre Studies, (vol. 3, Jan. 2009), pp. 217~248.
11. “Cultural Narratives, Tourist Behavior and Invented Tradition: A Comparative
Study of the Cultural Performances in Bali and the Bunun Tribe,” Taiwanese
Journal of Sociology, (vol.28, Sep. 2002), pp. 77-151.
12. “Femme Fatale as Warrior: Film Actresses and Chinese Modernity, 1933-35,” in
Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, (vol. 9, Aug. 2001), eds. by Lu
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Fang-shang and Yu Chien-ming (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica),
pp. 5-62.
13. “Gender Performances on Traditional Chinese Stage," in The Drama Review
(vol. 41, no. 2, T154, 1996), (Cambridge: MIT Press Journal), pp 130-152.
14. “Actresses, Realism and ‘New Women’: Gender Performances on the late Qing
and Early Modern Chinese Stage,” Research on Women in Modern Chinese
History, (vol. 4, Aug. 1996), eds. by Lu Fang-shang and Yu Chien-ming
(Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), pp. 87-133.
(D) Conference Presentations and Papers:
15. “On Tian Qinxin: An Era of Director or Producer?” International Symposium of
Performing China on the Global Stage, University of Leeds. UK, March 26-7,
2013。
16. “Changing Cultural Policy in Taiwan and New Model of Theatre Imagined,”
2012 Modern British and American Drama Association of Korea Conference,
Dongguk Univ. of Seoul, Republic of South Korea, Oct. 27, 2012.
17. “Performing Arts and Culture Industry in Taiwan,” invited speech by Chinese
Dept. of National Singapore Univ. March 14-17, 2012.
18. “Zwischen Kunst und Kommerz: zum Taiwanesischen Theater,“ RuprechtKarls-Universität Heidelberg and National Taiwan Univ., Nov. 18, 2011.
19. “Art as Industry?: a Participant-Observer’s Account of the Changing Concepts
of Theatre in Taiwan,” International Symposium on Staging the Modern:
Theatre, Intermediality, and Chinese Drama, sponsored by CCK Foundation,
Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Dept. of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, Harvard University, May 6-9, 2011.
20. “Art vs. Market?: The Cultural Significance of Theatre Arts in Taiwan and Great
Britain,” 2009 International Conference on Visuality and Cultural Literacy,
National Central Univ. Dec. 12-13, 2009.
21. “Performing Self, Enacting Memory: Ku Cheng-chiu’s Three Biographies, and
Women’s Remedy for War,” Histopolitan: Women and War, Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica, Dec. 10-12, 2008.
22. “Acting and Beyond: Star Process, Gender Politics and the Case of Leslie
Cheung,” International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema, Nanjing
University, China, June 25-27, 2008.
23. “Cultural Policies Reconsidered: A Comparative Study on ‘Creative Industry’ in
China and Taiwan”, 2006 Conference on Modern Theatre in Taiwan, National
Taiwan Univ., Oct. 7-10, 2006.
24. “Elite Talk and Policy Discourse: Rethinking the Cultural Adaptation of
Taiwan’s Modern Theatre,” 2004 International Conference on Formation of
Canon, the New Approaches to Taiwan Literature, Institute of Chinese Literature
and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, July 15-19, 2004.
25. “Gender and Visuality of Chinese Modernity: A Performance Study on Chinese
Women Photography, 1930s-1940s.” Conference on Visual Configuration of
China Since 1600, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Sep. 5-6, 2001.
26. “Flapper and Femme Fatale and in Chinese Mirror: An Intercultural Studies of
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‘Star Discourse’ in the 1930s Hollywood and Chinese Film Industries,”
International Conference on Women and the Culture in Modern China, 16001950, Institute of Modern History, Aug. 23-25, 2001.
27. “Marketing Film, Performing Modernity, 1920s~1930s,” New Directions in
Chinese Women’s History, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Center for Chinese Cultural and History, Columbia University. Feb. 16-17, 2001.
28. “Performing Scholarship, Tourisizing Identity: A Comparative Study of Cultural
Policy and Nationalism in Indonesia and Taiwan,” 2000 Conference on Cultural
Studies, National Chiao-Tung Univ., Dec. 16-17, 2000.
29. “Impersonating `New Woman:’ Feminist Actress, Socialist Warrior and the
Wartime Performance Reform,” 2000 ATHE (The 14th Annual Conference of
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education), Washington D.C., Aug. 2-5,
2000.
30. “Gender, Magic and the Yuan Acting,” 1999 ATHE (13th Annual Conference of
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education), Toronto, Canada, July 28-31,
1999.
31. “Technology & Ideology of the Gender Performance in Modern Chinese Film:
1922-1934.” Third Annual Conference of Performance Studies by the National
Association of Performance Studies. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.April, 10-12, 1997.
32. “Actresses and Realism in China, 1930s-1940s,” International Conference on
Literature Theories and Popular Culture, Institute on Chinese Literature and
Philosophy, Academia Sinica, May 25, 1996.
(E) Grants and Fellowships:
33 “Performing Arts Cluster in Taoyuan,” Ministry of Culture, Branch of Creative
Cultural Industry, Grant for Research and Development, 2012.
34. “Theatre Performance and Performance Culture,” Ministry of Education,
Teaching Grant for Practical Humanity, Aug. 2011-Jan. 2013.
35. “Digital Archive of Taiwan Modern Theater and Performance, 1995-2009,”
National Science Council (NSC) Research Grant for National Digital Archive,
Aug. 2010-July, 2012. (99-2631-H-008-005) ETI
36. “Marketing Taiwanese Modern Theater, an Ethnographic Approach,” NSC
Research Grant, Aug. 2010-July, 2012. (99-2410-H-008-051-MY2)
37. “A Performance Study of the Stardom and Queer Performance in Hong Kong
(1980s-1997) and Hollywood Cinema,” NSC Research Grant, Aug. 2009-July
2010. (98-2410-H-008-074)
38. “Theatre ’Art’ or ’Industry’?: A Comparative Study of the Creative Industries in
the United Kingdom and China,” NSC Research Grant, Aug. 2007-July, 2009.
（96-2422-H-008-001）
39. “Digital Archive of Electronic Modern Theater Intermix in Taiwan, 1986~2005,”
NSC Research Grant for National Digital Archive, July, 2 05-June, 2007. 2006.
(95-2422-H-008-001)
40. “Body that Remembers: Body Narratives in the American Performance Arts,
1960s~1970s,” NSC Research Grant, Aug. 2005-July, 2006. (NSC94-2411-H008- 009)
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41. “Cultural Policy Studies: Discourse & Policy Making of the Performing Arts in
the United States and Its Influnce on Taiwan, 1965-2000,” NSC Research Grant,
Aug. 2004-July, 2005. (NSC93-2411-H-008-008)
42. “Body, Text, Performance: A Historiography of Taiwan's Modern Theater,” NSC
Research Grant, Aug. 2002-July, 2004. (NSC-91-2411-H- 008-014)
(F) Artistic Credits
1. One Hundred Years on Stage, playwright (co-writing with Wang Anchi, Chao
Hsue-chun), Guoguang Beijing Opera Troupe, (premiered in April 22-24, 2011),
Taipei Municipal Hall. Funded by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
2. Have Wok, Will Travel (a collaboration of modern dance and theatre),
playwright, director, Creative Society Theatre Ensemble (CS), (premiered in
Dec. 20, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011), Experimental Theatre in Taipei National Theatre.
Funded by NEA, Taipei Cultural Council.
3. Zhou Huiling Xiaoxi Dazuo (Three plays of Experimental Theatre by Katherine
Hui-ling Chou), Taipei: Bookman (2011).
4. He is My Wife, He is My Mother, playwright, director, CS, (premiered, May 1417, 2009; re-run, July 29-31), Taipei Municipal Hall. Funded by NEA, Taipei
Cultural Council.
5. He is My Wife, He is My Mother (script and DVD). Taipei: Da Ke Press, 2009,
2010.
6. Dreams on Manuscript, playwright, National Theatre in Taipei. (Publication
funded by NEA.) Taipei: Da Ke Press, 2009.
7. to be AND not to be, playwright/director, CS, (premiered, Nov. 15-18; 22-25,
2006, Experimental Theatre at Taipei National Theatre; Eslite Culture Center,
Tainan); (international tour, March 21-24, 2007, One-Hundred Year of Spoken
Drama in China Festival, Beijing City; Nov. 13-4, 2007, Asian Theatre Festival
at Shanghai Spoken Drama Center); (Taiwan re-run, Oct. 25-6, 2008, Chiayi
Cultural Centre; Nov. 19, NCTU, 2008). Funded NEA, Taipei Cultural Council.
8. Deja vu, director, CS, (premiered, Nov. 2003, Taipei Novel Hall Theatre;
international tour in Beijing, Sep. 19-20, 2006; Taiwan re-run, Tainan, Taichung,
TCHU, April 22, 29, May 6, 20). (Funded, NEA, Taipei Cultural Council.)
9. Reel Murder, director, CS, (premiered, May 6-12, 2005, Taipei Novel Hall
Theatre). (Funded, NEA, Taipei Cultural Council)
10. Click, My Baby, playwright/director, CS, (premiered, April 30-May 2, 2004),
Taipei Novel Hall Theatre. (Funded, NEA, Taipei Cultural Council. Script by
Rye Field Pub., 2004)
11. Memory Album, playwright/director, CS, (premiered, May 9-12, 2002),
Experimental Theatre of Taipei National Theatre. (Funded, NEA, Taipei Cultural
Council)
12. I Want You, I Want You Not, playwright/director, CS, (premiered, Feb. 2000),
Taipei Novel Hall Theatre. (Funded, NEA, Taipei Cultural Council. Script
published by Daoxiang Pub., 2002)
(G) Doctoral Dissertation:
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“Staging Revolution: Actresses, Realism & New Woman Movement in Chinese
Spoke Drama & Film, 1919-1949,”doctoral dissertation for the Dept. of
Performance Studies, Jan. 1997, New York Univ. USA. (1997 Outstanding
Dissertation Award, NYU; 1997 Outstanding Research Award, NSC)
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