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ARTS REVIEW No.48 ─ Jun, 2025

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	The Theory and Practice of the “Body Energy of Tranquility” in Landscape Painting – Taking the Paintings “Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank” by Hui Chong and Fu Baoshi as Examples	Mei-Yen Lee	Tranquility; Emptiness & Tranquility; Body Energy of Tranquility; Landscape Painting Theory; Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank; Chong Hui; Baoshi Fu
2	Reviving the Spring Blossoms and Autumn Fruits: Reflections on the Legacy of “Spring Autumn Music SQ+”	Yu-Shun Pong	Shui-Long Ma; Spring Autumn Music SQ+; String Quartet; Traditional Instruments and Contemporary Classical Music; Chew’s Culture Foundation
3	Bruce Lee in Paint: Hand-Painted Movie Billboards as Star Texts	Wan-Jui Wang	Movie Billboard; Chang Yu-tsuen; Bruce Lee; Movie Star; Transmedia
Review papers
4	Ethnographic Turn: On “Fieldwork” and Its Discourse in Taiwanese Contemporary Art	Ting-Yu Liang	Taiwanese Contemporary Art; Ethnographic Turn; Fieldwork; Other
5	The Operational Screen: Artistic Interventions in the Mechanism of Obfuscation in Postwar Taiwan	Pei Chun Hsieh	Video Art; Installation Art; Chen Chieh-Jen; Chang Wen-Husan; Screen Studies; Cultural Techniques
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ARTS REVIEW No.47 ─ Jul, 2024

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	Research on the Literature Interpretation and Aesthetic Connotation of “Yun” in Guqin Theory - Focusing on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties	Mei-Yen Lee	Yun; Theory of Music; Theory of Guqin; Music Aesthetics; Guqin
2	The Grotowski Method Aims at the Total Act: Our Principles, Self-Discipline, Personification, Eradication of Blocks, and Organization of the Actor’s Scores	Mingder Chung	Jerzy Grotowski; Total Act; Poor Theatre; Acting Method; Performance Score
3	After Typhoon Morakot: Creative Narratives of Paiwan Artists Etan Pavavalung and Aluaiy Kaumakan on Social Media	Tzong-Sheng Deng	Paiwan; Social Media; Art-based Research; Climate Change; Cultural Response
4	Neo-Diaspora’s Taiwan New Wave: Midi Zhao’s Ice Poison and Kek-Huat Lau’s Buoluomi	Ke-Ming Lin	Taiwan New Wave; Neo-Diaspora; Inheritance; Midi Zhao; Kek-Huat Lau; Waiting; Exile
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ARTS REVIEW No.46 ─ Jan, 2024

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	On the Drama Theory of Taiwan during the Cold War Period: The Political Unconscious of Yao, Yi-Wei’s Categories of Beauty	Chen-Tse Wu	Categories of Beauty; Taiwan Drama Theory; Political Unconscious; Cold War in Taiwan; Yao; Yi-Wei
2	Another “Other”: Exploring “the Other” in the Field of Art from the Perspective of Emmanuel Lévinas’ Viewpoint of Death	Jun-Honn Kao	The Other; Death; Ethics; Being; Contemporary Art
3	Exploring Urban Aesthetics from the Viewpoint of Shared Culture: Gaozhuang Xishuangjing of Jinghong and Chiang Mai Old City	Ya-Liang Chang	Folk Culture Village; Shared Culture; Urban Aesthetics; Chiang Mai; Jinghong
4	The Musical Analysis and Interpretation of Chaya Czernowin’s Holocaust Opera Pnima… ins Innere	Yu-Jen Sung	Chaya Czernowin; Pnima… ins Innere (Inwards); Holocaust; Avant-garde Opera
5	The Aesthetics of Slowness and Politics of Different Speeds: Revisiting Tsai Ming-Liang’s “Walker” series and the Corporal Objections within Long Duration Performance	Sheng-Hung Wang	A esthetics of Slowness; Politics of Different Speeds; Expenditure; Temporality of Acceleration; Streaming Culture
Review papers
6	The Quality of Contemporary Image: On the Engagement of “Specularity” and “Reflexivity” with “Facing the Vast Spectacle”	Hsiang Cheng	Contemporary Image Arts; after 1980s; Specularity; Reflexivity; Image
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ARTS REVIEW No.45 ─ Jul, 2023

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	Folk Dance Activity during the“Period of Martial Law”in Taiwan	Tung, Meng-Hsiu	the Period of Martial Law, China Youth Corps, Activity Theory, Depth Interviews, Content Analysis
2	The Body Becomes Image: The Dance Montage of Hsiao-Mei Ho	Hsu, Chun-Yi	Hsiao-Mei Ho, Dance, Image, Body, Montage
3	Collecting Fragments and Piecing Together Details in the Absence of Genealogy: Challenges in Research on the Development of Video Art in Taiwan	Hong, Jun-Yuan	Video Art in Taiwan, Organization of Historical Perspectives, Research Sampling, Epistemology, Database
4	An Observation on Agency in Social Movements via 2019-2020 Ongoing Hong Kong Protests’Graphics	Chang, Min-Chi	Uprising, 2019-2020 Hong Kong Protests, Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, Social Movement, Graphics, Agency
Review papers
5	The Revelation of Deleuze/Guattari’s Theories: A Climax Community in Music World Formed by the International Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw, Poland	Pong, Yushun Elisa	International Chopin Piano Competition, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre-Félix Guattari, Climax Community
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ARTS REVIEW No.44 ─ Jan, 2023

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	The Inheritance and Evolution of “Diean Sixteen Rules for the Tones of Qin”from “Xishan Qin kwuan” (24 Epithets on Guqin Music)	Lee, Mei-Yen	Guqin, Leng Qian, Zhuang Zhenfeng, Diean Sixteen Rules for the Tones of Qin, Xu Hong, Xishan Qin kwuan (24 Epithets on Guqin Music)
2	“La musica altro non essere che la favella⋯”: Tracing Sources of Declamatory Style in Giulio Caccini’s Le Nuove Musiche	Che, Yen-Chiang	Monody, Florentine Camerata, Naturalism, Sprezzatura
3	A Preliminary Investigation of Rational Features of Indeterminacy—Taking John Cage’s Solo for Piano as an Example	Peng, Chia-Ling	Theory of Rationality, John Cage, Max Weber, Indeterminate Music
4	Pierre Soulages’s“Outrenoir”, A“Work of Truth”Which Accesses“Infinity”	Yen, Huei-Ru	Badiou, Outrenoir, Infinity, Work of Truth, Soulages
5	Seeing Death as Death: On Memory Making in the Art of Christian Boltanski	Wang, Hsiao-Hua	Death, Mourning, Memory, Christian Boltanski, After-dead
Review papers
5	The Narrative Techne of the Shaman: The Speculation of“ Essay” and“ Incantation-Image”	Liang, Ting-Yu	Shaman, Specter, Essay, Incantation, Visual Discourse
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ARTS REVIEW No.43 ─ Jul, 2022

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	The Body between Sensation and Interpretation: Discussing Modern and Contemporary Dance, as well as Works by Ho Hsiao-mei, from the Stance of Phenomenology	Mathias Obert	Dance, Body, Sensation, Interpretation, Ho Hsiao-mei
2	Copy is Original: About Kazuo Ohno and Notations	Liu, Liang-Yen	Copy, Butoh, Kabuki, Onnagata, Takao Kawaguchi
3	Within the Divine Grassroots Culture, Transforming the Daily Life: Research on the Method of Physical Actions of Taiwanpak-kuán Parade (Taking Playing tshau -á as an Example)	Hong, Wei-Wei	Present State, Pak-kuán, The Method of Physical Actions, the Tamsui South-North Pak-Kuán Community
4	The Cultural Representation and Evolution of Military Songs: Military Song Creation after the Government Moved to Taiwan	Huang, Chien-Pei	Military Songs, Social Changes, Military Music, Military Art Propaganda, Cultural Representation
5	The Mediality of Photobooks: Books as Apparatus of Technical Images	Chu, Yin-Hua	Holding the Camera, Technical Image, Vilém Flusser, Apparatus, Photobook
6	Environmental Aesthetics Revived in Taiwan: Implications of Socially-Engaged Art Practice and Local Art Festival	Tung, Wei-Hsiu	Socially-Engaged Art Practice, Local Art Festival, Revival of Environmental Aesthetics, Art Intervention in Communities, Creative-placemaking
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ARTS REVIEW No.42 ─ Jan, 2022

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	Structural Analysis of Interactive Installation in New Media Art	Chen, Yun-Ju	Interactive installation, Phenomenology of Technology, Ddynamic Structure, New Media Art
2	The Volcano of Flesh in the Distance between Life and Death: Hsiao Mei Ho’s Creation of the Body from New Paradise of Silent Island to Renaissance of Its Ashes	Tsai, Shan-Ni	Hsiao Mei Ho, Gilles Deleuze, Sigmund Freud, Body, Uncanny, Distance, Limit
3	From Folk Festivals for “Tourism” to the “Protection” of National Important Folk Cultural Properties: A Discourse on the Preservation Process and Future Maintenance of Cultural Resources for the Keelung Ghost Festival	Lin, Cheng-Wei	The Keelung Ghost Festival, Cultural Resources, National Important Folk Cultural Assets, Festival tourism and cultural preservation, Keelung
4	The Investigation of Celestial Musical Performers of Pi’pa and Flute in the Yungang Grottoes	Lee, Mei-Yen	Celestial musical performers, Pi’pa and flute, Yungang Grottoes, Musical icons, Northern-Wei dynasty
Review papers
5	A Study of Joshua Reynolds’ Theory of Imitation—Focusing on Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy	Kao, Shih-Han	Royal Academy of Arts, Ideal beauty, Neoclassicism, Joshua Reynolds, Imitation
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ARTS REVIEW No.41 ─ Jul, 2021

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	The‘Other’under the Official Discourse: Paintings and Sculptures in the period around the‘Liberation’of South Vietnam	Yen, Chih-Hung	Vietnam, art of South Vietnam, art of North Vietnam, the other, nationbuilding.
2	Theatre and Social Conflict: Political Aesthetics in Christine Umpfenbach’s Urteile and Nuran David Calis’s Die Lücke	Chen, Yi-Chun	political theatre, contemporary German theatre, antagonism, hegemony
3	The Imaginary“West”: Reprinting and Translation of Western Scripts in the 1960-1970s	Lo, Yang	Li Man-kuei, Tamkang Western Modern Drama Translation Series,Fuxinggang Translation Series, Taiwanese Modern Drama, Yen Yuan-shu
4	Study on the Evolution of the Indonesian Sarong and Batik Patterns by Historical Documents	Yang, Fang-Chi	Indonesian sarong, Indonesian traditional costumes, Indonesian batik
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ARTS REVIEW No.40 ─ Jan, 2021

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	“ The Representation of documenta”as Cultural Politics Event: Study on the Reports of documenta 7-12 in the Art Magazines- Lion Art, Artist, and ARTCO	Lu, Pei-Yi	documenta, Media Reports, Exhibition Histories, Representation, Cultural Politics Event.
2	The Discourse on the Sense of Place Represented by the Mixed Media in Taiwanese Photography Creation—Case studies on works from 2000 to 2010	Chiu , Kuo-Chun	mixed media, representation of image, cultural representation, sense of place
3	The Research of Kài-Thâu ( 介頭) and the Leader’s (thâu-tshiú 頭手)Hand Gestures in Pak-Kuán Music	Weng, Wei-Hong	pak-kuán gongs and drums, thâu-tshiú, kóo-kài, kài-thâu, hand gestures
4	Towards Commercialization: Taiwanese Indoor-Stage Qizi Troupes’ Strategic Responses to Changing Trends in the Japanese Colonial Period	Lu, Ying-Yu	qizi opera, Japanese colonial period, vernacularization, commercial theatre, Taiwanese xiqu
5	Stepping into Modernity: Shanghai Urban Modernity and the Emergence and Development of Huju Opera —taking the performance of“Waterloo Bridge”by Shanghai Huju Opera Troupe in 1941 as an example	Hong, Weiwei	Shenqu, Huju opera, Shanghai Huju opera Troupe, Shanghai Island Period, “Waterloo Bridge”
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ARTS REVIEW No.39 ─ Jul, 2020

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	Self-Penetration, Nudity, and Compassion: On the Method of Physical Actions Implicit in Marina Abramovic’s Performance Art	Chung, Mingder	method of physical actions (MPA), performance art, Marina Abramovic,Jerzy Grotowski, modern art
2	From Beuys to Mao: The Criticism and Self-Criticism in Jörg Immendorff ’s Early Artistic Practices	Huang, Bihe	Mao, Immendorff, criticism and self-criticism, avant-garde art, Beuys
3	Revival and Silence: Revisiting the“New World Drama Movement”in the 1950s	Lo, Yang	Mao, Immendorff, criticism and self-criticism, avant-garde art, Beuys
4	See the Image Emerging of Overcoming Resistance through Tsai Ming-Liang's Creative Circumstances	Chen, Hsin	The Thing (Das Ding), jouissance, image, Tsai Ming-liang
5	Comparison of the Aesthetic Significance of“Yuan ”（遠）in the Theories of Xisan qinkuang（《谿山琴況》）and Linquan gaozhi（《林泉高致》）	Lee, Mei-Yen	“ Yuan”(distant, far, and profound), theory of guqin music, theory of landscape painting, Xisan qinkuang, Linquan gaozhi
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ARTS REVIEW No.38 ─ Jan, 2020

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	“A Simple Life Place”: William Ratcliffe’s Representation of the Garden City	Chang, Lin	William Ratcliffe, Garden City, Letchworth, Spencer Gore, the Camden Town Group
2	The Meaning and Evolution of“Roundness and Fullness”as Beauty Using the Techniques of the Fingers:“Yin”and“Nao”of Guqin Music	Lee, Mei-Yen	roundness and fullness,“yin”,“nao”, guqin, the techniques of the “Pingsha Luoyan”in Mei-an ch’in-p’u
3	Dancing Me to the Cosmopolitan: Taiwanese Salsa Travel at International Salsa Congresses	Chang, I-Wen	Taiwanese identity, choreography, salsa, cosmopolitanism, nationalism
Review
4	Dancing for Itself: An Exploration of Cunningham’s Body Vistas from the Perspective of“Cage Zen”	Pong, Yushun Elisa	John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage Zen, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Zen spirit
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ARTS REVIEW No.37 ─ Jul, 2019

	Title	author	keyword
Research Paper
1	From Inner Imitation to Information Integration: Revisiting the Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Induction via Music	Tsai, Chen-Gia	musical emotion, social cognition, conceptual blending, neuroscience, evolutionary biology
2	Research on the“24 Epithets on Guqin Music (24 Qinpin)”collected in Tianwenge Qinpu	Lee, Mei-Yen	“ 24 Epithets on Guqin Music (24 Qinpin)”, 24 Epithets on Poems (24 Shipin), 24 Epithets on Guqin Music (24 Qinkwuan), Tianwenge Qinpu, Guqin
Review
3	Using a theatrical approach to promote civic participation: A case study of the“Old Fairy Tales”by Over Diamond Art Studio	Hsieh, Hua-Jung	Participatory Theatre; Immersive Experimental Theatre; civic participation; conversation; relationship
4	Observing Taiwan’s cultural diplomacy strategy through the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale	Kuo, Tang-Ling	Cultural diplomacy, Cultural Policy, The Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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ARTS REVIEW No.36 ─ Jan, 2019

	Title	author	keyword
1	Mountains Are Again Mountains:The Zen Spirit in John Cage’s Visual Art	Pong, Yushun Elisa	John Cage, Zen spirit, Zen art, Zen painting
2	From Demolishing Proscenium- Arch Stage, Disappearing Actor to the Immersive Experience: The Presentation of Techno-Theatre in WANG Jun-Jieh’s L'Après-midi de la Gravité , Sin City, and The Night of Sodom	Chiu, Chih-Yung	Techno-theatre, WANG Jun-Jieh, L'Après-midi de la Gravité, Sin City, The Night of Sodom
3	“ Cloud Gate Dance Theater”in the 1970s-1980s and Taiwanese Modern Music ─ With Deh-Ho Lai’s White Snake and Dream of the Red Chamber and Shuilong Ma’s Liao Tien-Ding as Examples	Sung, Yu-Jen	Hwai-Min Lin, Shui-long Ma, Cloud Gate Dance Theater, Taiwanese Modern Music, Deh-Ho Lai
4	A Study on the Image of“Boya Plays the Guqin”on the Deities and Animals Bronze Mirrors’Ornamentation during the Han Dynasty	Lee, Mei-Yen	Guqin, Boya, East Han dynasty, musical icon, Deity and Animal bronze mirror
5	War and Love: a Metaphor Analysis of the Actors in the Plays“QiuHai Tang”,“Return on a Snowy Night”, and“Yun Cai Xia”	Chang, Ying	plays about Peking opera actors, War of Resistance, QiuHai Tang, Return on a Snowy Night, Yun Cai Xia.
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ARTS REVIEW No.35 ─ Jul, 2018

	Title	author	keyword
1	A Representation of Self: On Antoine Vitez’s Mise en Scène of Paul Claudel’s The Satin Slipper	Yang, Lilly	Le Soulier de satin, actantial model, theatre semiotics, Paul Claudel, Antoine Vitez
2	From “Camera Obscura” to “Camera Lucida”: “Becoming-women”— Sensitive Arrangement and the War-machine of Tatsumi Hijikata and Roland Barthes	Hsu, Shao-Yun	Tatsumi Hijikata, Roland Barthes, becoming, suizyakutai, feminine agency
3	The Discovery of the Bow-shaped Objects and the Research of the “Hé” Bells	Wang, Wan-Chuan	bow-shaped objects, Six Arts, charioteering artifacts, the “hé” bells “ming hé luan,”
4	Contemplation Aroused by a Musical: On Studies of Contemporary Aboriginal Music	Chen, Chun-Bin	performance, aboriginal music, National Concert Hall, articulation, musicking

ARTS REVIEW No.34 ─ Jan, 2018

	Title	author	keyword
1	A Discussion on the Sound of “Mist and Cloud” in the Tune “Mist and Cloud over Xiao-Xiang Rivers”, as Found in Da Huan Ge Qingpu	Lee, Mei-Yen	Da Huan Ge Qinpu, the sound of “mist and cloud”, Hsu Hong, His-Shan’s Epithets on Qin Music, Mist and Cloud over Xiao-Xiang Rivers, Guqin
2	New Sounds of Piano: A Study of Helmut Lachenmann’s Guero	Sung, Yu-Jen	Helmut Lachenmann, Guero, musique concrète instrumentale, modern piano work, avant-garde music
3	On Presence of Actor: We Are Playing at being Shiva and We Are Acting out Shiva	Chung, Mingder	Presence, theatre aesthetics, method of physical actions, Jerzy Grotowski, Shiva State
4	The Visual and Narrative of Memory / Recall in Animated Movie	Lee, Hung-Ken Lee, Lai-Chung Lee, Sin-Jie Ho, Tien-Ying	Bergson, memory/recall, psychology of memory, animated movie
5	Study on Ceiling of Tomb in the Han Dynasty: focusing on Mianyang Cliff Tomb	Kung, Shih-Wen	tombs of the Han Dynasty, Mianyang cliff tombs, ceiling design, hanging melon, star patterns

ARTS REVIEW No.33 ─ Jul, 2016

	Title	author	keyword
1	A research on occupational competency building for arts facilities: focus on setting up staffs' competency standards; cultivating talents; and certification competence	Jay, Jieh-Horng	cultural and artistic industry practitioners, competency, competency standard, competency certification, competency standard based curriculum
2	A Study on the “Way of the Chinese Guqin” from the Perspective of Western Scholars: Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, George Tradescant Lay, Herman Smith and Robert Hans van Gulik	Lee, Mei-Yen	Guqin, Qin Tao（Way of the Chinese Guqin）, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, George Tradescant Lay, Herman Smith, Robert Hans van Gulik
3	Body Politics and Gender Consciousness in Barbara Kruger’s Works of Images and Words	Chen, Yu-Jing	Barbara Kruger, body politics, gender consciousness, contemporary art
4	Study on Identity of the Drama The Village	Huang, Shi-Xian	identity, military dependents, Taiwan drama, The Village
5	Night Market Theatre and Night Walks: Making Theatre in the Margin	Chin, Jia-Iuan	Night Market Theatre, Night Walks, Participatory theatre, Site-Specific Theatre, Hualien

ARTS REVIEW No.32 ─ Jan, 2017

	Title	author	keyword
1	Impotent Violence: The Aesthetics of Gang Violence in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Films	Liao, Dominique Ying-Chih	aesthetics of violence, gang violence, gangster film, impotent violence, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, A City of Sadness, Goodbye South, Goodbye
2	Creative practice and research: The learning approach in creativity	Deng, Tzong Sheng	creative practice and research, creative learning, art education
3	A Study of Naga Plastic Arts in Northern Thailand: Taking Buddhist Temples of Mueang Chiang Mai District for Example	Chang, Ya-Liang	Buddhist temple, Naga, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Buddhist art, Lanna
4	The Expression of Female Characteristics and Interaction with Feminism in 19th Century in Franz Liszt’s Oratorios, The Legend of St. Elizabeth (Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth) and Christ (Christus)	Lu, Wen-Yea	Liszt, Oratorio, Feminism, Christus, stabat mater dolorosa, Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth, stabat mater speciose, St. Mary
5	Balancing En Pointe Between Dance And Death: The Pirouette Ballerina In The Film The Red Shoes	Chang, Szu-Ching	Ballerina, The Red Shoes, dance and gender

ARTS REVIEW No.31 ─ Jul, 2016

	Title	author	keyword
1	Digital Performance in Twenty‐First Century Taiwan: Huang Yi & KUKA, a New Form of Sino-Corporeality	Lin, Ya‐Tin	digital performance, Huang Yi, human dancing with robots, anthropomorphism, dance and technology in Taiwan
2	The Significance of “Overtone” in His‐Shan’s Epithets on Qin Music Written by Hsu Hong	Lee, Mei‐Yen	overtones, guqin music, Hsu-Hong, Taoist philosophy, His-Shan’s Epithets on Qin Music
3	My Body is the World Center: the Aesthetic Experience in the Performing Arts Classroom	Jung, Shu‐Hwa	aesthetic education, aesthetic experience, process philosophy, theatre, learning community
4	Discussion on Modernity and Taiwanʹs New Peking Opera in the 21st Century: A Case Study on The Golden Cangue, Meng Xiaodong and One Hundred Years on Stage	Yu, Ting‐Ting	One Hundred Years on Stage, Meng Xiaodong, The Golden Cangue, modernity, new Peking Opera