1. Li Ruru is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Leeds University, UK. She has written extensively on Shakespearean performance in China (including a monograph Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China, Hong Kong University Press 2003) and on Chinese theatre (both modern spoken drama and indigenous song-and-dance theatre). Her recent books include The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), and Jingying touliang de yu: Li Yuru...