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EASC Lecture/CSCC Lecture: Amazing Hands: Teaching Taiwanese Hand Puppet Theater in US Universities

Sue-mei Wu
October 3, 2016
All Day
Columbus State Community College campus (Workforce Development Conference Center, Rm 312; 315 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH 43215)

Columbus State Community College and East Asian Studies Center (OSU) present the Columbus Collaborative Speaker Series on East Asia:

Amazing Hands: Teaching Taiwanese Hand Puppet Theater in US Universities

Professor Sue-mei Wu
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract:  Hand Puppet Theater 布袋戲 (Budaixi, BDX) is one of the most representative folk performance forms in Taiwan. BDX is a   traditional performance art in which small puppet figures are manipulated by hand. During its development in Taiwan, BDX has become intertwined with Taiwan local customs and practices, has become a valued aspect of Taiwanese culture, and has impacted Taiwanese pop culture.  

This talk will highlight Dr. Wu’s ethnographic research to investigate how BDX is adapting to the rapid economic, social, and political change within Taiwan’s local context. Dr. Wu will also highlight her BDX class that engages students and helps them appreciate Chinese language, culture, and society while also increasing their language proficiency. She will demonstrate her approaches to content-based instruction, technology-enhanced learning, flipped classroom and the 5Cs standards as applied to her pioneering BDX – Chinese Puppetry in the Social Context course.  Students’ hands-on BDX theater experiences and creation of a BDX documentary film will also be demonstrated.

This event, organized and hosted by Columbus State Community College, is sponsored in part by a   U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Bio: Sue-mei Wu (吳素美) received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1997. Prior to her current affiliation at Carnegie Mellon University, she has taught at Ohio State and Harvard University. During her two plus decades of teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), she has devoted her linguistics, pedagogy and technology expertise to creating and developing various new and innovative Chinese courses, textbooks, online courses, and teacher training resources.  She has designed, developed, and coordinated all levels of Chinese language and culture courses, and has received several awards and grants to support the development of online language, culture and folk performance modules.
 

Free and open to the public. 


This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.

Contact: Jennifer Nardone (CSCC) jnardone@cscc.edu | Mitch Learner (OSU) lerner.26@osu.edu