No Play is Not (W)right 

Circus of the Brute 

Night time. On the vaudeville stage, the Ventriloquist is found dead performing an act with the Denture and the Skull. Two pairs of skeletons, Rascal and Scoundrel, kickdance on, utterly scared of...The Dead is telling a story about a toothless black cat, or was it the little girl who lost an eyeball? Who is hunting? Who is haunted? Shush and breathe slowly—the Circus of the Brute is putting on a thriller of triple murders.

Just A Bit, Just A Bite 

In the bee hive, the worker bee Aster is preparing Anemone, the Virgin Queen for the impending battle with the other dauphinesses. Out of all, there will be one survivor, who will succeed the Mated Queen and become the reign of the bee colony. Yet, Anemone abhors what's ahead. When the fighting is about to start, the bee breeder destroys the nest and obtains all the other Virgin Queens, leaving Anemone as the only hope of the clade. Could and would she willfully stay to fulfill her responsibilities as the Queen of the bees?

Make No Sense

Mr. Eye lives with his wife Mrs. Eye on the third floor in the Face Apartment. Mr. Eye is suffering from an unspecified disease that demands high-risk surgery, and this makes Mrs. Eye pressingly concerned about him getting rest. Mr. Mouth, a low-rank employee who resides on the first floor is loud-mouthing his discontent, and Miss Nose, the occupant of the second floor is performing her daily yoga vocal...and inopportunely, the building is notoriously ill-soundproofed. 

The Waking

An email was sent out by the University: "A student was found dead at the base of the Library." Tower. The community was paralyzed by grievance and shock--some were further burdened by the voluntary act and became (re)actively traumatized. Coursing through was underwhelming, and counseling was overbooked. At the Vigil, the unbearable lightness almost stopped another heart. Fair Ophelia, will thou be? Will thou exit?  

AI-DQ

Welcome to the 56th election of the President of the United Territorials! Now that we are coming to the final debate of our two presidential candidates--the Secretary of Space, and the General, the biological parents of Trii, the late developer of the identity authentication platform AI-DQ, Artificial Intelligential Queerness Detective. 

Bananaland

Auction, Bananaland. Muon and Muru, two monkeys, are out-monkeying one another, taking and talking bananas. The Zoo Keeper arrives in a suit and tie, chasing the spotlight. Side by side,  and see that sight for sight, raise the bid for your type of primate.

Man and Mooncake

The Jade-Rabbit is getting drunk on chrysanthemum tea "with" the Osmanthus Tree, grudging over the Moon Goddess for pinching her bite of Mid-autumn Festival mooncake...

Twenty Twenty-Two

The pandemic is coming to a hiatus. The Pigeon, the Rat, and the Bat are getting together in an outdoor café, uncertain if jesting is the way to make the best out of the near...past and future.

《震魂之鼓》[Chinese translation (2024), Bera Handa: A Sri Lankan musical by Bandula Jayawardhana]

Injustice to Dou’E [(2023)《窦娥冤》: A Chinese Zaju attributed to Guan Hanqing]

The Frog Knight [ (2023)《青蛙骑手》: A Chinese play by Lao She]

《佼佼者》[Chines translation (2022), The Stronger by August Stringberg]

Her Fruitful Life

Maniac Wonderland Poems.

Collection of six.

"Mystical Origin"

An A-history of how the descendants of Adam and Eve come to communicate.

The Raven and the The Skull

English re-translation of Yorrick,  a Chinese-English poem cycle about colors through blackness and whiteness. Collection of nineteen (DRAFT).

The Zoo and Its Carousel

A Sunday Afternoon with the Humans and the Animals at Ross Park. Collection of seven. 

Whispers: Cognitive Process in Inter-semiotic Translation (2023)

A study of artists' thought processes translating across sign systems through spontaneous reflection with section analysis on visual art as the source media, translating between visuals, words, sounds, movements, and space. 

Incorporation of Production Process in Performance Script Translation (2022)

M.A. thesis. A project-based evaluation of the potential of the production process, acting, directing, dramaturgical research, and audience response in assisting the preparation, revision, and refinement of translation for the stage through the Chinese adaptation of Charles Wangel’s English translation of August Strindberg’s 1890 dramatic monologue The Stronger. 

“Subverting” the Neoclassic Constraints: The Presence of Magic in Early Commedia Dell’arte (2022)

An analysis of dramatic function and social-ideological implication of magic and magical elements in eight plays from the 1611 Scala Collection. 

Mei Lan-fang: the Masculinist Idealization of Femininity (2022)

A feminist re-assessment of the Beijing Opera practitioner Mei Lan-fang's conformist and controversial representation of the "ideal woman" surveying the repository, working process, and the artist's personal life.