EASC Guest Speaker Series: Writing Against Erasure: Courtesans, Performance, and the Making of Late Ming Drama - Talk by Prof. Peng Xu
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Writing Against Erasure: Courtesans, Performance, and the Making of Late Ming Drama Monday, October 12 | 2:00PM-3:20PM | DML 240 | RSVP EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Peng Xu (Associate Professor, ShanghaiTech University) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Mengxiao Wang (EALC 145: Introduction to Chinese Culture Art and Literature) Peng Xu’s The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (University of Michigan Press, 2025) reinterprets late Ming drama by foregrounding courtesan performance culture as a generative force in theatrical production. Drawing on a wide range of sources—incl…
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