Mapping China: Performing Arts - Suggested Further Reading

• Dr. Rosella Ferrari: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30938.php
• Dr. Claire Conceison: http://mta.mit.edu/person/claire-conceison
• Dr. Emily Wilcox: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eewilcox/ and https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/people/faculty/eewilcox.html
• Annie Katsura Rollins, Shadow Puppet specialist: http://www.chineseshadowpuppetry.com/
• Hutong Theatres in Beijing: http://china.org.cn/arts/2015-11/27/content_37181433.htm
• List of Beijing theatre venues: http://theatrebeijing.com/theatres/
• List of Shanghai theatre venues: http://www.xishiqu.com/venues/021-0-0-o0-p1.html
• English translation of Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_08.htm
• China Dance Magazine 《舞蹈杂志》:  http://mall.cnki.net/magazine/magalist/WDWD.htm
• China Dance Fashion Magazine: http://dancefashion.sports.cn/
• China Dancer’s Association: http://www.cdanet.org/
• Sister Cities China and The Netherlands: The author recommends starting with the city in China that is twinned with your particular city in The Netherlands to see if there are opportunities for collaborations and exchanges between artists, academies, and venues in the two cities. List here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_China

* NOTE about WeChat / Weixin:

China’s performing arts industry, both official and independent, currently use the Chinese social media platform “Weixin” (English: WeChat) to publicize their activities and share information about their works. Personal / individual accounts operate much like Facebook/Twitter accounts, and larger “official” accounts for organizations operate like newsletters and websites to which people can subscribe for information and regularly posted updates.

Almost every arts organization and individual in this report currently has both a personal and an official WeChat account, whereas only a limited number maintain websites. There are numerous WeChat groups that publicize information about small-scale, independent and other non-commercial / more contemporary works, conferences, and events. These are the best source of the most updated and accurate information about what is going on in any given city at any given time. However, the accounts are almost exclusively in Chinese, which creates challenges for Western readers to access information.