Overseas performance of Mei Lanfang
The decline of male dan in PRC
Week 8 Theater as a popular entertainment
Premodern popular entertainment
Edo Japan and mid- to late-Qing China
Close relation between actors and audiences
Week 9 East VS. West: influences from Western realistic theater
Modernization and the impact of Western thoughts
Realistic theater and its development in East Asia
Week 10 Politics and theater
Theater as propaganda: huaju and shingeki during war times
Postwar Japanese little theater
Yangbanxi
Week 11 Theater and business
Production of musicals in contemporary Korea
Theater in a mediatized society
Commercial and artistic: the dilemma of theater practitioners
Week 12 Sound in theater
The role of music in theater
Silence in performance
The interpretation of sound
Week 13 Theater in media mix
Theater as a sector of media mix
2.5-dimensional theater
Theater in TV and film productions
Week 14 Audience and actor
Audience participation throughout the history of East Asian theater
Post-dramatic theater that breaks the fourth wall
Immersive theater and environmental theater
Week 15 The audience of contemporary kunqu
The development of audience-actor relationship in kunqu