October 16: "Chinese Cinema: History and New Trends" presented by the Coker College Chinese Culture Club

Coker College Chinese Culture Club and the Engaged Learning Center will host guest speaker Tan Ye, professor of comparative theater and director of the Confucius Institute at the University of South Carolina. Ye will present a lecture titled "Chinese Cinema: History and New Treads," at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16 in the Daniels Board Room.

Ye will provide a brief survey of Chinese cinema evolution. He will also discuss the relationship between Chinese cinema and Hollywood, the three major traditions that fostered Chinese cinema, economic and cultural contexts of modern cinema and new trends of Chinese cinema.

Ye received a bachelor of arts in English from Beijing Normal University. He studied British theater at the University of Toronto and comparative theater at Washington University. Ye is a visiting scholar at the Beijing Film Academy, China Film Archive, and National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. His publications include “Common Dramatic Codes in Yuan and Elizabethan Theaters” (1997), “Theory and Practice of Screenwriting in China and America” (co-edited with Li Jin, 2008), “Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater” (2009), “Chinese Theater A-Z” (2010) and “Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema” (2012). He has written more than 60 essays and book chapters on Chinese cinema, theater and culture including “Film: China” in the “Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World.”

Ye has also served in organizing committees for many Chinese film festivals and international conferences on Chinese cinema. In 2009, he played the key role in the establishment of the Chinese Film Collection at the University of South Carolina, which is the largest collection of Chinese films outside China.

Release written by media relations coordinator Elizabeth McCarley.