{"id":503,"date":"2026-05-07T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/?p=503"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:02:14","slug":"presentation-double-coding-the-past-dramaturgical-strategies-of-the-nine-in-contemporary-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Presentation: Reflecting the Present through the Republican Past \u2014 Affective Historical Dramaturgy in The Nine&#8217;s Republican Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IFTR-2026-What-Theatre-Does-medium-1536x768-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IFTR-2026-What-Theatre-Does-medium-1536x768-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IFTR-2026-What-Theatre-Does-medium-1536x768-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IFTR-2026-What-Theatre-Does-medium-1536x768-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IFTR-2026-What-Theatre-Does-medium-1536x768-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In July 2026, <strong>Ting Zhang<\/strong> presented her paper, <strong>\u201cReflecting the Present through the Republican Past: Affective Historical Dramaturgy in The Nine\u2019s Republican Cycle\u201d<\/strong>, at the Australian Society for Asian Humanities (ASAH) Inaugural Conference at the University of Sydney, followed by the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress at the University of Melbourne, where she presented as part of the Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy Working Group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Focusing on the contemporary Chinese theatre collective The Nine (\u8bdd\u5267\u4e5d\u4eba), the paper introduced the concept of \u201caffective historical dramaturgy\u201d to examine how the company reactivates Republican-era history as a reflective framework for engaging indirectly with contemporary social, ethical, and intellectual concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2026, Ting Zhang presented her paper, \u201cReflecting the Present through the Republican Past: Affective Historical Dramaturgy in The Nine\u2019s Republican Cycle\u201d, at the Australian&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingpostsocialism.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}