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Email: blader@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-3478 Office: 6191 Bartlett Hall
Education
B.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Expertise
Chinese literature and culture; storytelling in China; Chinese Oral Narrative Performance
Selected Works
Videotaped, designed, and digitized "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," 56 hours of performances of Mr. Tang Gengliang, produced with Otmar Foeslche, (Fall 2005).
Videotaped, designed, and digitized "The Tragic-Comic Destiny," 56 hours of performances of Ms. Jiang Yunxian, produced with Otmar Foeslche, (Fall 2005).
Completed 112 DVDs (112 hours) of pingtan storytelling performances, (Summer and Fall 2005).
Designed, edited, and published 20 DVD's (20 more hours) of Suzhou pingtan, (Summer 2004).
Tales of Magistrate Bao and His Valiant Lieutenants, Chinese U. Press, (1998, second printing with revised introduction, December 2000).
"Chinese Oral Narrative and Its Transformation into Print: the Case of Bai Yutang," in The Eternal Storyteller, (V. Bordahl (ed.), (1999).
Chinese Ideas on Nature and Society: Festschrift in Honor of Derk Bodde, co-editor and contributor, Hong Kong University Press, (1987).
Current Projects
"The Art of Suzhou Pinghua: Tang Gengliang and Jiang Yunxian"
