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Papers by Lanlan Kuang
... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ... more ... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ushers forth the feeling of move-ment quality: "When the right foot is stepping, the body is directed crosswise on a left diagonal, and vice versa. ...
Music and Consciousness 2
This chapter explores the interpretation of music as a philosophical concept within the context o... more This chapter explores the interpretation of music as a philosophical concept within the context of Chinese aesthetics. A particular focus is the Daoist connection of music with psychological concepts such as consciousness, the experience of time, and the emergence of memory in space and time. The human body, regarded as both physical and spiritual, is an integral element of Daoism, which offers a route to understanding consciousness as coterminous with being and nonbeing, and to linking the latter to music. In the Daoist tradition nonbeing, in musical time, brings forth dynamic and temporal connections between the conscious and the unconscious through memory. The chapter uses the programmatic title and literary preface of Seagulls and Forgetting Schemes, a Song dynasty qin piece, as an exemplar of the Daoist aesthetic of (un)consciousness, approached as both an ideal comprising a world or state of enlightened detachment and an aesthetic activity for cultivating such a world or state.
This presentation introduces the speaker’s ethnomusicological research on the Dunhuang Mural Musi... more This presentation introduces the speaker’s ethnomusicological research on the Dunhuang Mural Music and Dance, a multifaceted genre of music, dance, and dramatic performances that was created in the twentieth century and based primarily on images and gestures from the artifacts excavated from the Mogao Caves, one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Dunhuang, China’s northwestern Gansu Province. The speaker has been conducting multisite fieldwork on the performative images in the Dunhuang arts since 2002. Represented through the performative images in the Dunhuang Mogao wall paintings were dancers and musicians with characteristics of non-Han ethnicities entertaining foreign gods of Buddhism, transmitted from India along the Silk Road. The 492 caves at the Mogao cliff near the modern town of Dunhuang have served as temples, sites for performative events, and an archive that consisted of medieval Chinese paintings and Buddhist sutras. These materials embody a history of negotiation a...
The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity, 2021
Asian Theatre Journal, 2018
Gastronomica, 2017
In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, th... more In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, this article examines the presentation of food in today's mainstream Chinese media and the effects of its aesthetics in China and around the globe. Identified herein are the various stages of what I call a mediated discursive transformation of China's foodscape and culinary heritage in the globalization era, which started with an upsurge of gastronomic writing in China's print media and is being furthered by a generation of globally conscious Chinese elites. To examine the mediated process of Chinese cuisine under the influence of globalization and, particularly, the impact that the transforming Chinese food media may have on its local and indigenous foodscape, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the local, humanistic street food culture of Chongqing and the indigenous, halal cuisines of Lanzhou Muslim, and carried out a content analysis of the new Chinese food documentaries ...
Choice Reviews Online, 2006
Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Lihui Yang and Deming An (with Anderson Turner) Year: 2005 Pages: ... more Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Lihui Yang and Deming An (with Anderson Turner) Year: 2005 Pages: 293 Publisher: ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1-57607-806-X Prices: $75.00 US
Communication Design Quarterly, 2016
This article examines the 2014 Sino-American University Student Digital Micro Film Competition, a... more This article examines the 2014 Sino-American University Student Digital Micro Film Competition, a collaboration developed and administered between the University of Central Florida in the United States and Shanghai University in the People's Republic of China (PRC). By using qualitative text analysis and visual content analysis to review key materials and events from this case, the researchers studied information design and cross-cultural communication practices of various aspects of the partnership. The resulting analysis reveals unique information design challenges associated with cultural differences in communication practices, visual design, and administrative style. The summary of the case and the results of the related research presented here also provide readers with information design strategies that can facilitate design practices---and the associated coordination of event planning---across different cultural groups.
Asian Theatre Journal, 2007
... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ... more ... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ushers forth the feeling of move-ment quality: "When the right foot is stepping, the body is directed crosswise on a left diagonal, and vice versa. ...
Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage, 2019
China Review International
Folklore Studies, 2016
“Otto” and “Rumi” were the artistic aliases adopted by Ekrem Yazici, a Turkish national who becam... more “Otto” and “Rumi” were the artistic aliases adopted by Ekrem Yazici, a Turkish national who became one of the growing numbers of foreign “jingpiao,” foreign traveling artists who would establish themselves in China’s porcelain capital Jingdezhen. Based on data gather during the first phase of the author’s ethnographic study with Ekrem Yazici at Jingdezhen, this article examines the foreign traveling artists, or the foreign “jingpiao"’s cultural awareness and their active participation in the construction of Jinagdezhen’s ceramic cultural landscape. This study presents the foreign "jingpiao"'s identity transformation processes: from the once “Others” seeking acknowledgement and accommodation to the current “actors” contributing to the transformation processes per se. The study also suggests the importance of foreign artists in China as a collective group of “multi-identity actors” that play an essential role in the formulation and construction of contemporary China’s artistic and cultural landscape.
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 2017
In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, th... more In light of increasing media attention and commercial
interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, this article examines the
presentation of food in today’s mainstream Chinese media and the
effects of its aesthetics in China and around the globe. Identified
herein are the various stages of what I call a mediated discursive
transformation of China’s foodscape and culinary heritage in the
globalization era, which started with an upsurge of gastronomic writing
in China’s print media and is being furthered by a generation of
globally conscious Chinese elites. To examine the mediated process
of Chinese cuisine under the influence of globalization and, particularly,
the impact that the transforming Chinese food media may
Communication Design Quarterly, 2015
Rudy McDaniel and Lanlan Kuang’s article “Cross‐cultural Cinematic Communication: Learning from t... more Rudy McDaniel and Lanlan Kuang’s article “Cross‐cultural Cinematic Communication: Learning from the Information Design Process for a Sino‐American Film Competition” examines the complexities of such cross‐cultural collaborations. In their entry, McDaniel and Kuang review a case in which a team comprised of individuals in the US and the PRC collaborated to co‐host an international film festival spanning two nations. During the
planning process, a number of cultural and political factors emerged that could have created problems between the collaborating groups. By examining the steps taken to address such issues and to open channels of communication, McDaniel and Kuang provide an effective example of approaches for learning about cultural dynamics while engaging in collaborations.
Through this examination, the authors offer strategies for researching cultural practices and preferences while working with the members of another culture. In this way, McDaniel and Kuang build upon Dutta and Das’ prior entry by expanding how one can
partner cross culturally to engage in more effective international design practices.
Books by Lanlan Kuang
《敦煌壁画乐舞：“中国景观” 在国际语境中的建构与传播》, 2016
Available in: Harvard-Yenching Library; Princeton-Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology; Stanfo... more Available in: Harvard-Yenching Library; Princeton-Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology; Stanford East Asia Library; Columbia University Libraries (CLIO); Univ. Michigan Hatcher Graduate Asia Library; OSU Music and Dance Library; UCLA East Asian Library; Brown University Library; Rice Fondren Library; Univ. of Toronto East Asian Library
作者从传统美学、表演理论及知觉认知科学的角度，解释了敦煌壁画乐舞作为一种依附于时空与诗性的表演艺术形态，是如何在流动、演绎的表演过程中，以舞者与观舞者之间的认知、互动展现的两种元素来体现、建构“中国景观”，从而达到中国传统美学中所推崇的“象外之象”“诗与境偕”的境界。
导 论/1
第一章 敦煌元系统与论述形构/19
第一节 敦煌元系统/19
一 “元”与“形而上”/20
二 “元认知”与“体知”/27
第二节 中国景观之论述建构/34
一 “中国景观”/34
二 论述体系/38
第三节 敦煌壁画乐舞之非线性研究/44
一 解构主义与非线性/44
第二章 重置敦煌：“华戎所交一都会”之语境说/52
第一节 “景观”/52
一 自然地理景观/52
二 人文地理景观/54
第二节 “想象的敦煌”/58
一 “华戎所交一都会”/58
二 “边境都市”/61
第三节 表演艺术之“景观”说/75
一 音乐景观/78
二 舞蹈景观/81
第三章 音乐人类学视野中的敦煌壁画乐舞/107
第一节 音乐人类学/107
一 源起与历史/107
二 田野调研与敦煌壁画乐舞/116
第二节 表演理论/130
一 源起与历史/130
二 表演理论与敦煌壁画乐舞/136
第三节 民族志诗学/138
一 源起与历史/138
第四章 敦煌壁画乐舞/148
第一节 敦煌表演艺术/148
一 源起与历史/148
第二节 展示性传播内容/173
一 色彩与造型（民族文化多元性）/173
二 手姿与三道弯（展示性多元一体化）/187
第三节 隐性论述性内容/210
一 心神/226
二 气韵/234
结束语 复古矣？复兴矣？/245
“中国景观”与“中国梦”的建构/245
参考文献/259
... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ... more ... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ushers forth the feeling of move-ment quality: "When the right foot is stepping, the body is directed crosswise on a left diagonal, and vice versa. ...
Music and Consciousness 2
This chapter explores the interpretation of music as a philosophical concept within the context o... more This chapter explores the interpretation of music as a philosophical concept within the context of Chinese aesthetics. A particular focus is the Daoist connection of music with psychological concepts such as consciousness, the experience of time, and the emergence of memory in space and time. The human body, regarded as both physical and spiritual, is an integral element of Daoism, which offers a route to understanding consciousness as coterminous with being and nonbeing, and to linking the latter to music. In the Daoist tradition nonbeing, in musical time, brings forth dynamic and temporal connections between the conscious and the unconscious through memory. The chapter uses the programmatic title and literary preface of Seagulls and Forgetting Schemes, a Song dynasty qin piece, as an exemplar of the Daoist aesthetic of (un)consciousness, approached as both an ideal comprising a world or state of enlightened detachment and an aesthetic activity for cultivating such a world or state.
This presentation introduces the speaker’s ethnomusicological research on the Dunhuang Mural Musi... more This presentation introduces the speaker’s ethnomusicological research on the Dunhuang Mural Music and Dance, a multifaceted genre of music, dance, and dramatic performances that was created in the twentieth century and based primarily on images and gestures from the artifacts excavated from the Mogao Caves, one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Dunhuang, China’s northwestern Gansu Province. The speaker has been conducting multisite fieldwork on the performative images in the Dunhuang arts since 2002. Represented through the performative images in the Dunhuang Mogao wall paintings were dancers and musicians with characteristics of non-Han ethnicities entertaining foreign gods of Buddhism, transmitted from India along the Silk Road. The 492 caves at the Mogao cliff near the modern town of Dunhuang have served as temples, sites for performative events, and an archive that consisted of medieval Chinese paintings and Buddhist sutras. These materials embody a history of negotiation a...
The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity, 2021
Asian Theatre Journal, 2018
Gastronomica, 2017
In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, th... more In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, this article examines the presentation of food in today's mainstream Chinese media and the effects of its aesthetics in China and around the globe. Identified herein are the various stages of what I call a mediated discursive transformation of China's foodscape and culinary heritage in the globalization era, which started with an upsurge of gastronomic writing in China's print media and is being furthered by a generation of globally conscious Chinese elites. To examine the mediated process of Chinese cuisine under the influence of globalization and, particularly, the impact that the transforming Chinese food media may have on its local and indigenous foodscape, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the local, humanistic street food culture of Chongqing and the indigenous, halal cuisines of Lanzhou Muslim, and carried out a content analysis of the new Chinese food documentaries ...
Choice Reviews Online, 2006
Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Lihui Yang and Deming An (with Anderson Turner) Year: 2005 Pages: ... more Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Lihui Yang and Deming An (with Anderson Turner) Year: 2005 Pages: 293 Publisher: ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1-57607-806-X Prices: $75.00 US
Communication Design Quarterly, 2016
This article examines the 2014 Sino-American University Student Digital Micro Film Competition, a... more This article examines the 2014 Sino-American University Student Digital Micro Film Competition, a collaboration developed and administered between the University of Central Florida in the United States and Shanghai University in the People's Republic of China (PRC). By using qualitative text analysis and visual content analysis to review key materials and events from this case, the researchers studied information design and cross-cultural communication practices of various aspects of the partnership. The resulting analysis reveals unique information design challenges associated with cultural differences in communication practices, visual design, and administrative style. The summary of the case and the results of the related research presented here also provide readers with information design strategies that can facilitate design practices---and the associated coordination of event planning---across different cultural groups.
Asian Theatre Journal, 2007
... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ... more ... An excerpt from Browning's description of the Brazilian orixa (Yoruba god) Oxossi dance ushers forth the feeling of move-ment quality: "When the right foot is stepping, the body is directed crosswise on a left diagonal, and vice versa. ...
Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage, 2019
China Review International
Folklore Studies, 2016
“Otto” and “Rumi” were the artistic aliases adopted by Ekrem Yazici, a Turkish national who becam... more “Otto” and “Rumi” were the artistic aliases adopted by Ekrem Yazici, a Turkish national who became one of the growing numbers of foreign “jingpiao,” foreign traveling artists who would establish themselves in China’s porcelain capital Jingdezhen. Based on data gather during the first phase of the author’s ethnographic study with Ekrem Yazici at Jingdezhen, this article examines the foreign traveling artists, or the foreign “jingpiao"’s cultural awareness and their active participation in the construction of Jinagdezhen’s ceramic cultural landscape. This study presents the foreign "jingpiao"'s identity transformation processes: from the once “Others” seeking acknowledgement and accommodation to the current “actors” contributing to the transformation processes per se. The study also suggests the importance of foreign artists in China as a collective group of “multi-identity actors” that play an essential role in the formulation and construction of contemporary China’s artistic and cultural landscape.
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 2017
In light of increasing media attention and commercial interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, th... more In light of increasing media attention and commercial
interest in documenting Chinese cuisine, this article examines the
presentation of food in today’s mainstream Chinese media and the
effects of its aesthetics in China and around the globe. Identified
herein are the various stages of what I call a mediated discursive
transformation of China’s foodscape and culinary heritage in the
globalization era, which started with an upsurge of gastronomic writing
in China’s print media and is being furthered by a generation of
globally conscious Chinese elites. To examine the mediated process
of Chinese cuisine under the influence of globalization and, particularly,
the impact that the transforming Chinese food media may
Communication Design Quarterly, 2015
Rudy McDaniel and Lanlan Kuang’s article “Cross‐cultural Cinematic Communication: Learning from t... more Rudy McDaniel and Lanlan Kuang’s article “Cross‐cultural Cinematic Communication: Learning from the Information Design Process for a Sino‐American Film Competition” examines the complexities of such cross‐cultural collaborations. In their entry, McDaniel and Kuang review a case in which a team comprised of individuals in the US and the PRC collaborated to co‐host an international film festival spanning two nations. During the
planning process, a number of cultural and political factors emerged that could have created problems between the collaborating groups. By examining the steps taken to address such issues and to open channels of communication, McDaniel and Kuang provide an effective example of approaches for learning about cultural dynamics while engaging in collaborations.
Through this examination, the authors offer strategies for researching cultural practices and preferences while working with the members of another culture. In this way, McDaniel and Kuang build upon Dutta and Das’ prior entry by expanding how one can
partner cross culturally to engage in more effective international design practices.
《敦煌壁画乐舞：“中国景观” 在国际语境中的建构与传播》, 2016
Available in: Harvard-Yenching Library; Princeton-Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology; Stanfo... more Available in: Harvard-Yenching Library; Princeton-Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology; Stanford East Asia Library; Columbia University Libraries (CLIO); Univ. Michigan Hatcher Graduate Asia Library; OSU Music and Dance Library; UCLA East Asian Library; Brown University Library; Rice Fondren Library; Univ. of Toronto East Asian Library
作者从传统美学、表演理论及知觉认知科学的角度，解释了敦煌壁画乐舞作为一种依附于时空与诗性的表演艺术形态，是如何在流动、演绎的表演过程中，以舞者与观舞者之间的认知、互动展现的两种元素来体现、建构“中国景观”，从而达到中国传统美学中所推崇的“象外之象”“诗与境偕”的境界。
导 论/1
第一章 敦煌元系统与论述形构/19
第一节 敦煌元系统/19
一 “元”与“形而上”/20
二 “元认知”与“体知”/27
第二节 中国景观之论述建构/34
一 “中国景观”/34
二 论述体系/38
第三节 敦煌壁画乐舞之非线性研究/44
一 解构主义与非线性/44
第二章 重置敦煌：“华戎所交一都会”之语境说/52
第一节 “景观”/52
一 自然地理景观/52
二 人文地理景观/54
第二节 “想象的敦煌”/58
一 “华戎所交一都会”/58
二 “边境都市”/61
第三节 表演艺术之“景观”说/75
一 音乐景观/78
二 舞蹈景观/81
第三章 音乐人类学视野中的敦煌壁画乐舞/107
第一节 音乐人类学/107
一 源起与历史/107
二 田野调研与敦煌壁画乐舞/116
第二节 表演理论/130
一 源起与历史/130
二 表演理论与敦煌壁画乐舞/136
第三节 民族志诗学/138
一 源起与历史/138
第四章 敦煌壁画乐舞/148
第一节 敦煌表演艺术/148
一 源起与历史/148
第二节 展示性传播内容/173
一 色彩与造型（民族文化多元性）/173
二 手姿与三道弯（展示性多元一体化）/187
第三节 隐性论述性内容/210
一 心神/226
二 气韵/234
结束语 复古矣？复兴矣？/245
“中国景观”与“中国梦”的建构/245
参考文献/259