Dr. Claire Conceison, Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and Professor of Theater Arts, has collaborated with Chinese director Meng Jinghui since 1993, while she was a graduate student and he was new on the Beijing theater scene. She recently published a collection of five of his plays translated into English, with introduction, production photographs, and DVD of production footage with subtitles.

 

I Love XXX and Other Plays by Meng Jinghui edited and translated by Claire Conceison                      

Seagull Books, 2017 (distributed by University of Chicago Press).

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Photos: (top) Book cover of I Love XXX and Other Plays, (middle) Scene from Meng Jinghui’s production of Rhinoceros in Love, (bottom) Scene from Meng Jinghui’s production of Rhinoceros in Love.

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