倾城之恋舞台剧说明.pptVIP

LOVE FOR A FALLEN CITYAn explanation of the play傾城之戀舞台劇說明 (2011年1月10日修訂版) Shi-Kuo Chang 張系國 E-mail: chang@cs.pitt.edu (Note: The play Love for a Fallen City based on a short story of Shi-Kuo Chang will be staged in Spring 2012 at the National Theatre of Taiwan. The ideas presented here can always be discussed and modified. Another musical Chess King also based on a novel of Shi-Kuo Chang will be staged in Fall 2011 at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall of Taiwan.) About Shi-Kuo Chang A man of two cultures, Shi-Kuo Changs literary activities include the writing of twenty eight novels, collection of short stories and essays. His novels were translated into English, French, German, Japanese, and made into musical play, movie and TV series. He is credited to be the Father of Science Fiction in Taiwan, but his mainstream short stories and novels also receive critical acclamation. Most people in Taiwan know Shi-Kuo Chang as a novelist and not as a scientist. In 2003 Columbia University Press published the English translation of Shi-Kuo Changs three major sci-fi novels as a single volume entitled The City Trilogy (ISBN 0-231-12852-5). Professional Career of Shi-Kuo Chang Shi-Kuo Chang received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1965. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1969, respectively. He was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center from 1969 to 1975. From 1975 to 1982 he was Associate Professor and then Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1982 to 1986 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology. From 1986 to 1991 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Professor and Director of Center for Parallel, Distributed and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh. In 197