Online Guest Lecture - When Tang Xianzu Meets Shakespeare : Dreaming Under the Bough

🌟 Join Us for an Inspiring Guest Lecture with Professor Li Jun!

After the recent success of Dreaming Under the Bough, an innovative intercultural collaboration celebrating Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu, we are thrilled to host an introductory guest lecture by Co- Director and Associate Professor of English at the University of International Business and Economics Professor Li Jun.

📚 What to Expect:

• Discover Tang Xianzu’s life and legacy—why he remains one of China’s greatest playwrights.
• Explore the common ground between Tang and Shakespeare, uncovering shared themes across cultures.
• Go behind the scenes of Dreaming Under the Bough—a ground-breaking bilingual production

🎯 Key Questions We’ll Answer:
✅ What made Tang Xianzu one of China’s greatest playwrights, and why does his work still matter today?
✅ Where do Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu meet across cultures—and what can we learn from their shared themes?
✅ How the Dreaming Under the Bough was created?  what lessons have we learnt from a this intercultural collaboration?

📅 Event Details

🗓 Date: Wednesday, 26th November
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (UK time)
💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
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LI Jun

Is an Associate Professor of English at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing. He earned his PhD in English Literary Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. He directed Julius Caesar (1st prize, 2nd Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival, CUHK, 2006). He co-directed UIBE-Leeds collaborative productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dreaming Under the Southern Bough (2016 tour: Leeds, Edinburgh Fringe, Shanghai Shakespearean Festival, Beijing) and Dreaming Under the Bough (7th Tang Xianzu International Drama Festival, 2025). In 2022, he was invited to deliver two online workshops themed “Interpreting and Adapting the Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet” at the China-UK Higher Education Young Talent Alliance (HEYTA) Conference. His representative publications include the monograph Popular Shakespeare in China: 1993-2008 and the article “Shakespeare Going Out Here and Now: Travels in China on the 450th Anniversary”(The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 2016), etc.