When A-Qing is expelled from his school because of 'scandalous relations' with classmate Zhao Ying, his father kicks him out of the family home. The high artistic quality of CS’s works has captured the attention of critics, audiences, media and academia alike and received raves in the process. Based on the homonymous novel by Pai Hsien-yung, the story takes place in Taipei in the 1970s, and follows a short period in the life of a young man called Li-Qing (nicknamed A-Qing). Throughout the past 23 years, the CS has collaborated with numerous directors and creators from a range of theatrical and visual genres, spanning both old and new generations, to create a new and diverse aesthetics for contemporary theater in Taiwan.
Pais father was the Kuomintang general Bai Chongxi, whom he later described as a 'stern, Confucian father' with 'some soft spots in his heart. He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
His most famous book was Taipei People (1971). Examining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chronicles a queer historiography that illuminates the production of sexual identities and the formation of sexual modernity. Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Chinese writer from Taiwan who has been described as a 'melancholy pioneer'. PAI Hsien-yungs masterwork Crystal Boys is set in the 1970s, an age of repression during which the gay community in Taiwan was severely stigmatized and. Creative Society Theatre Group (CS) was founded in May, 1997 with the aim of promoting originality in the theater. Pai Hsien-yung (1937) was the son of stern (and Mulsim) Kuomintang general Pai Chung-Hi (18931966) and until retirement taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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