Dr. Menghang Wu
PS M.A. Alum, Dr. Menghang Wu (M.A. '20), was honored with the Selma Jeanne Cohen Conference Presentation Award at the American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. Their award-winning paper, titled "If the River Could Sing: Reviewing Xu Shuying (许淑媖)’s Chinese Folk Dance Lectures in the US Beyond Socialist Imagination, Han-centrism, and Multiculturalism," explores Xu Shuying’s role in rebuilding relations between the US and China in the post-Cold War era and contributes to the history of transpacific dance circulation by shifting the focus from a national identity framework to reshaping the narrative of Chinese dance within the global landscape.