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The Complex Effects Of Picturebooks On English As A Foreign Language Reading, Shiyi Shen, Ting Huang
The Complex Effects Of Picturebooks On English As A Foreign Language Reading, Shiyi Shen, Ting Huang
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While effects of picturebooks on reading were examined in higher grades (e.g., high school students) (Ajayi, 2009), little is known about the emerging English as Foreign Language (EFL) Kindergartens to 4th graders (i.e., K-4) students in China. Language institutes are critical phenomena for EFL K-4 education in China (Shi, 2019). Aiming to test the hypothesis that picturebooks have positive effects for reading, this study adopted within-subjects and between-subjects design to examine the effects of picturebooks on EFL reading comprehension of K-4 students in a language institute in China. Thirty-two participants were assigned into two groups to complete multiple choice and …
When Folk Dance Was Radical: Cold War Yangge, World Youth Festivals, And Overseas Chinese Leftist Culture In The 1950s And 1960s, Emily E. Wilcox
When Folk Dance Was Radical: Cold War Yangge, World Youth Festivals, And Overseas Chinese Leftist Culture In The 1950s And 1960s, Emily E. Wilcox
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This article challenges three common assumptions about Chinese socialist-era dance culture: first, that Mao-era dance rarely circulated internationally and was disconnected from international dance trends; second, that the yangge movement lost momentum in the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC); and, third, that the political significance of socialist dance lies in content rather than form. This essay looks at the transformation of wartime yangge into PRC folk dance during the 1950s and 1960s and traces the international circulation of these new dance styles in two contexts: the World Festivals of Youth and Students in Eastern Europe, and …
A Linguistic Analysis For Comparing The Daily Greeting Words In China And In The United States: “How Is Going?” “Thank You!” And “Sorry", Ting Huang
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Article Language: Chinese
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
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Rulan Chao Pian, who taught Chinese and music at Harvard University from 1947 to 1992, was a pioneer in the fields of Chinese Song dynasty musical history and ethnomusicological studies of Peking opera and Sinophone popular performance.
Meaning In Movement: Adaptation And The Xiqu Body In Intercultural Chinese Theatre, Emily E. Wilcox
Meaning In Movement: Adaptation And The Xiqu Body In Intercultural Chinese Theatre, Emily E. Wilcox
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Zhuli xiaojie (adapted from Strindberg's Miss Julie) and Xin bi tian gao (from Ibsen's Hedda Gabler) are two works in a recent series of intercultural xiqu productions by playwrights William Huizhu Sun and Faye Chunfang Fei. In these works, the xiqu body serves as a medium for theatrical expression, where music, costume, movement, and props come together in a super-expressive acting technique that foregrounds qing (情), or sentiment. In these adaptations, the xiqu body compensates for what is necessarily cut from the text in the transformation from spoken drama to xiqu performance.
Han-Tang Zhongguo Gudianwu And The Problem Of Chineseness In Contemporary Chinese Dance: Sixty Years Of Controversy, Emily E. Wilcox
Han-Tang Zhongguo Gudianwu And The Problem Of Chineseness In Contemporary Chinese Dance: Sixty Years Of Controversy, Emily E. Wilcox
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In 1979, after twenty-one years of political reeducation, Chinese classical dance professor Sun Ying (孙颖, 1929—2009) returned to the Beijing Dance Academy to instigate reform in the field of Zhongguo gudianwu, the official national dance form of the People's Republic of China. In creating the Han-Tang style of Zhongguo gudianwu, Sun challenged accepted notions of Chineseness within the field, especially the idea that Chinese indigenous theater, or xiqu, should serve as the primary foundation for a distinctively Chinese national body aesthetic. While Sun's alternative vision of Chineseness produced extensive controversy, this controversy is not antithetical to the historical aims and …