Dr Ruru Li

Core Researcher

1993 PhD (English and East Asian Studies), Leeds; 1985 MA (Drama and Literature), Shanghai Theatre Academy; 1982 BA (Drama and Literature), Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Selected publications

Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China, Hong Kong University Press, 2003.

'Shakespeare on the Chinese Stage in the 1990s', Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 50, Fall 1999, No. 3, pp. 355-367.

'Conventionalization: The Soul of Jingju', Performing Processes - creating live performance, ed. Mock, Roberta, Bristol : Intellect, 2000, 69-82

'Sino the Times: Three Spoken Drama Productions on the Beijing Stage', The Drama Review, Summer 2001, T170, pp. 129-44.

'Shakespeare on the Stage of Asia', co-authored with J. Gillies, R. Minami and P. Trivedi, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, edited by Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 259-83.

'Mao's Chair: Revolutionizing Chinese Theatre', Theatre Research International, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2002, pp. 1-17.

'A Drum! A Drum! Macbeth doth come! - When Birnam wood moved to China', Shakespeare Survey, No. 57, October 2004, 169-85.

'Negotiating Intercultural Spaces: Much Ado About Nothing & Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese Stage' in World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance, edited by Sonia Massai, London and New York : Routledge, 2005, pp. 40-6.

'Modernity vs. Tradition: A Case Study of Wu Hsing-Kuo's Stage Presentation', Ethnicity & Identity: Global Performance, edited by Ravi Chaturvedi and Brian Singleton, Jaipur, New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2005, 417-23.

'Chinese-Speaking Theatre in Perspective: A Symposium', Asian Theatre Jounal, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2005.