Liyang Xia

Academic interests
- Reception history of Ibsen in China
- Theatre studies
- Digital Humanities
- Chinese traditional and modern theatre
- China Studies
- Gender studies
- Global influences of theatre cultures
Courses taught
IBS4000 Research Ethics, Information Resources and Advanced Academic Writing for Ibsen Studies
IBS4001 – Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ibsen Studies
IBS4102 – Henrik Ibsen’s oeuvre in the perspective of its reception history
IBS4205 -- New Perspectives in Ibsen Studies
IBS4204 – Ibsen in Performance
IBS4105 -- Ibsen Between Cultures
IBS4390 – Master's Thesis in Ibsen Studies
Background
Program co-ordinator (fagkoordinator), Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2021-
Acting Head, Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2019-2020
Associate Professor, Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2016-
Teaching assistant, University of Oslo, 2012-2013
PhD in Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, 2009-2012
Publications
Joanne Tompkins, Jonathan Bollen, Julie Holledge, and Liyang Xia. Visualising Lost Theatres: Recovering Social Interactions from the Spaces of Performance. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021.
Xia, Liyang (2021). The Silent Noras: Women of the First Chinese Performance of A Doll's House. Asian Theater Journal. ISSN 0742-5457. . doi: 10.1353/atj.2021.0011
Xia, Liyang (2018). A myth that glorifies: Rethinking Ibsen’s early reception in China. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 18(2), s 141- 168 . doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1550868
Xia, Liyang (2016). Heart Higher than the Sky: Reinventing Chinese Femininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, In Frode Helland & Julie Holledge (ed.), Ibsen Between Cultures. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270998630. 5. s 113 - 142
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Xia, Liyang & Tompkins, Joanne (2022). Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian Goldfields. In Bush-Bailey, Gilli & Flaherty, Kate (Ed.), Touring Performance And Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks. Routledge. ISSN 9780367519506. p. 31–47.
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Xia, Liyang (2021). The Silent Noras: Women of the First Chinese Performance of A Doll's House. Asian Theater Journal. ISSN 0742-5457. 38(1), p. 218–244. doi: 10.1353/atj.2021.0011. Full text in Research Archive
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Xia, Liyang (2018). A myth that glorifies: Rethinking Ibsen’s early reception in China. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 18(2), p. 141–168. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1550868. Full text in Research Archive
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Xia, Liyang (2016). Heart Higher than the Sky: Reinventing Chinese Fimininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In Helland, Frode & Holledge, Julie (Ed.), Ibsen Between Cultures. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998630. p. 113–142.
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Xia, Liyang (2007). Power Struggle in Hedda Gabler - A Close Reading of the Conversations between Hedda, Brack and Løvborg. In Helland, Frode; Mollerin, Kaja*; Nygaard, Jon & Sæther, Astrid (Ed.), The Living Ibsen: Proceedings - The 11th International Ibsen Conference, 21 - 27 August 2006. Unipub forlag. ISSN 978-82-91540-10-8. p. 153–158.
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Xia, Liyang (2013). Heart Higher than the Sky - Reinventing Chinese Femininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. 07 Gruppen. Show summary