Washington Business and Technology Institute

Dr. Daphne P. Lei is achieving in success and popularity in the academic world of drama!
By Tiffany Chang
***** I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ---Stephen Leacock
Dr. Daphne P. Lei will implement a seminar on "Women, Performance, Power" Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California-Irvine. It will be one of the programs for FALL 2007 FRESHMAN SEMINARS held by the University. Dr. Daphne Lei, Associate Professor in Drama, specializes Asian and Asian American theatre, intercultural performance, and gender studies.
The other two seminars of the Claire Trevor School will be "So You Want to Be a Star" in Drama by Don Hill and "Art of Collaboration and Consensus Decision Making" in Dance by Lisa Naugle.
"Th 9-9:50 am, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Community Center Classroom
Course Code 87564
Professor Lei s seminar will be held in the Mesa Court Housing in the Community Center Classroom. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/mc/map.asp.," noted the School.*1
FALL 2007 FRESHMAN SEMINARS of the University pointed out that, "What is a woman? How does a woman deal with social injustice and gender discrimination? How should a woman "perform" her role in society? How is her performance related to power? This class will examine the various aspects of women and performance (women as writers, theatrical and non-theatrical performers, dramatic characters), and analyze the significance of gender, power, performance and society." *2
Dr. Daphne P. Lei has achieved the following guest lectures recently:
{{{ S c A l (The golden dream now and then: development
of Chinese drama in America )
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, October, 2006 (lecture in Chinese)
R ] c R w c? e F (Looking for Miss
Hollywood and Mr. Broadway: theater, media, and Asian gender representations)
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, October, 2006 (lecture in Chinese)
Staging the Hyphen: Negotiating Asian and American on Stage
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, October, 2006
Introduction to Chinese Opera
Ancient Drama and Modern Opera Seminar
Department of Theatre, UC San Diego, October, 2006
Eternal Love and The Peony Pavilion
Barclay Theatre, Irvine, September, 2006
The Peony Pavilion Press Conference
Invited speaker (with Kenneth Pai [Pai Hsien-yong], Hua Wenyi, Dominic Cheung [Chang T so]
and David Schaberg)
California Institute for Chinese Performing Arts, July, 2006
Text and Chinese Calligraphy
Arts Humanities/Humanities Arts, UC Irvine, May, 2004
Introduction to Chinese Theatre
Department of Drama, UC Irvine, January, 2001
Chinese Theatre and The Injustice Done To Tou Ngo
Theater Department, UCLA, February, 2000
The History of Chinese Theatre
East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA, February, 1997 }}}*3
The following is a bio of Dr. Daphne Lei*4 by University of California-Irvine. We may view her photo with this bio on the following website at
http://drama.arts.uci.edu/faculty/lei.html
Ph.D. Tufts University
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
"My intellectual interest is the contact zone, where conflicts occur and solutions are sought, where identity is challenged and performed. I focus on intercultural exchanges along the Pacific Rim, especially intersections between Asians and Asian Americans and negotiations between Asian and non-Asian cultures.
"I challenge students to open their minds, to think critically and globally. I have actively participated in the international discourse on performance and have published and given talks on premodern Chinese drama, Asian American theatre, Chinese immigrant theatre and intercultural theatre, both in English and in Chinese. I also serve on the advisory board of Asian American Theatre Company (AATC, San Francisco)."
Dr. Daphne Lei wrote Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) that, "The other thing can be my upcoming book--Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). *5
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The description of the above book is that, "A provocative analysis of Chinese opera as experienced and practiced across multiple stages. Unlike traditional scholarship on Chinese opera, Operatic China examines theatrical and paratheatrical performance, theatre critique, ethnographic writings, local histories, and theories of performance, interculturalism, and transnationalism." *6
It is a pleasure of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) to recognize those outstanding individuals, groups, or projects which enrich the lives of many in our communities.*7 The following information have been received from a search of Dr. Daphne Lei*8 through the courtesy of the Asian American Studies, U. C. Irvine by Google.com and Google.cn:
Research Abstract:
B.A. Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan (English); M.A. California State University, Los Angeles (Theatre Arts); Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities, Stanford University (Drama). Interests and expertise include Asian, Asian American and Intercultural Theatre, Chinese Theatre and Film, Postcolonial and Diasporic Theatre, Gender, Race and Ethnicity. Published articles on the subjects of premodern Chinese theatre, gender and ethnicity, Chinese immigrant theatre, and Asian American theatre; taught at the Chinese Culture University (Taiwan), Tufts, and Stanford University; directed plays with Asian American casts at Harvard and Stanford; conducted playwriting workshop and mentored dance and theatre projects for Asian American students at Stanford and UCI. Currently on the advisory board of AATC (Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco).*9
Publications:
I. Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
The Virtual Chinatown and New Racial Formation: Cantonese Opera Performance in the Bay Area." Critical Theory and Performance II, eds. Joseph Roach and Janelle Reinelt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
"Staging the Asian American Binary." Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 301-17 .
"The Production and Consumption of Chinese Theatre in Nineteenth-Century California." Theatre Research International (Vol 28, No 3, October 2003), 289-302.
"Can You Hear Me? Female Voice and Cantonese Opera in the San Francisco Bay Area," The Scholar & Feminist Online (Barnard Center for Research on Women, http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ps/lei.htm)
"Envisioning New Borders for the Old China in Late Qing Fiction and Local Drama." Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo and Don Wyatt (RoutledgeCurzon, an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, 2003), 373-97.
"Biography of Sung J. Rno." Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. Miles X. Liu (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 292-7.
"Wang Zhaojun on the Border: Gender and Intercultural Conflict in Premodern Chinese Drama." Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 2 (Fall 1996), 229-37.
II. Dissertation
"Performing the Borders: Gender and Intercultural Conflicts in Premodern Chinese Drama (Ph.D Dissertation. Tufts University, 1999).*10
"Asian Pacific American have made profound contributions to American life, including the arts, economy, education, science, technology, politics, and sport. This community was here to help build trascontinental railroad, to serve in the Civil War, and to develop the latest Internet technology. I'm pleased to assure all you leaders of the community here today that I'll continue working to preserve and advance the heritage and value of Asian Americans. I'll put my effort to reach out and address issues of importance to the Asian American community, including the economy, education, safety, racial profiling, and hate crime, and immigration, among others. I'd like also to show my appreciation of all your accomplishments and contributions to the American way of life and your oustanding participation in the political, business , and educational processes. It's my pleasure to accept the honor as Professor of Administrative Strategies of the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration of Washington Business and Technology Institute," said Harry Reid, U. S. Senator and Assistant Democratic Leader (now Democratic Leader) of the Senate at Asian American Leaders Tea with United States Senator Harry Reid on May 31, 2003 at Korean Garden B. B. Q. House in Las Vegas.*11
Wish Dr. Daphne Lei a good future in her distinguished expertise, professionalism, and integrity!*12
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References
*1. The CTSA of University of California-Irvine. 'The seminar on Women, Performance, Power,' "A profile of Claire Trevor School of the Arts," (August 15, 2007), Irvine, California: UCI.
*2. Ibid.
*3. UCI. Ibid.
*4. Lei, Daphne. "Thank you,' "An e-mail from Dr. Daphne Lei to Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI)," (August 31, 2006), Irvine, California: University of California-Irvine.
*5. Ibid.
*6. Palgrave Macmillan. 'Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific,' "A profile of 'Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History' by the company," (August 15, 2007), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
*7. Walsh, Jessie; Moss, Cheryl; and Chang, Tiffany. 'Drs. Lee Bernick and Keong Leong were appointed deans of GSBPA of WBTI,' "A special column of 'Nevada Examiner'," (March 28, 2003), Las Vegas, Nevada: Nevada Examiner.
*8. Chang, Tiffany. 'Dr. Daphne Lei, a distinguished scholar in drama,' "A search of 'Dr. Daphne Lei wbti' or 'Daphne Lei's World in Drama' on the Google.cn," (September 4, 2006), Mountain View, California: Google.cn.
*9. Kung, Jennifer. 'Dr. Daphne P. Lei is on Google and Yahoo!' "A search of 'Daphne Lei' on the Google.com," (March 16, 2007), Mountain View, California: Google.com.
*10. Ibid.
*11. GSBPA of WBTI. 'U. S. Senator Harry Reid fights for our people,' "A search of 'U. S. Senator Harry Reid' on the Google.cn," (September 3, 2006), Mountain View, California: Google.cn.
*12. Douglas, Michael; Weber, Valerie; Moss, Cheryl; and Chang, Tiffany. 'Brilliant, Yahoo answers our people, community, and world!' "A search of 'Business wbti' on the Ask.com," (August 8, 2007), U. S. A.: Ask.com.

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