The Drama Review (TDR), 2025
Performance Studies MA candidate Lele Han’s article, “The Young China: Musical Theatre Reperformances by Chinese Generation Z Fans,” received Honorable Mention in the 35th TDR: The Drama Review Student Essay Contest and was published in the latest issue of TDR.
Article Abstract:
For Chinese Generation Z fans, the reperformances of musical theatre have empowered them to realize self-transformation while performing in public—without the constraints of formal physical training or special creative ability. By reperforming musicals with the themes of idealism and revolution, these youth re-create song-and-dance gestures as a rite of passage in everyday life, striving for individual idealized identities while playing disciplined social roles under the control of official ideology.