David Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play.His latest play Yellow Face combines signs,representation and the issue of identity on the stage with those in...David Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play.His latest play Yellow Face combines signs,representation and the issue of identity on the stage with those in the real life,vividly interpreting the fluidity of identity.Therefore,this essay attempts to concentrate on a semiotic study of Yellow Face from the perspective of Stuart Hall's Cultural Studies,especially the discursive approach.Through the analysis of various signs in the plays to be discussed and how these signs construct meaning to represent culture,this essay explores the relationships between symbolic representations and cultural identity,shedding a new light on Yellow Face.展开更多
University of Southern California （USC） Professor Kai Hwang delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture “Global Advances in Computer and Information Technology： Can China Take the Lead？” in the FIT Lecture Hall...University of Southern California （USC） Professor Kai Hwang delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture “Global Advances in Computer and Information Technology： Can China Take the Lead？” in the FIT Lecture Hall on January 6, 2009. During his lecture, Professor Hwang shared his ideas about several global advances in computer, networking, and information technology and discussed the great challenges yet to be confronted in information and technology in academia and in industry and the building of world-class universities. In his address,展开更多
文摘David Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play.His latest play Yellow Face combines signs,representation and the issue of identity on the stage with those in the real life,vividly interpreting the fluidity of identity.Therefore,this essay attempts to concentrate on a semiotic study of Yellow Face from the perspective of Stuart Hall's Cultural Studies,especially the discursive approach.Through the analysis of various signs in the plays to be discussed and how these signs construct meaning to represent culture,this essay explores the relationships between symbolic representations and cultural identity,shedding a new light on Yellow Face.
文摘University of Southern California （USC） Professor Kai Hwang delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture “Global Advances in Computer and Information Technology： Can China Take the Lead？” in the FIT Lecture Hall on January 6, 2009. During his lecture, Professor Hwang shared his ideas about several global advances in computer, networking, and information technology and discussed the great challenges yet to be confronted in information and technology in academia and in industry and the building of world-class universities. In his address,
