Scholars and Experts Week

Scholars and experts explore the playbill, bringing insight and experience to discussions around the impact of art, even when circumstance would see it obscured or contained

Death of a Salesman Goes to Beijing

What on earth possessed Arthur Miller to come to China in 1983 to direct his quintessentially American masterpiece, Death of a Salesman? And what ripples did this landmark production cause around the world? Join Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy, the playwrights of Salesman in China, University of British Columbia Professor Siyuan Liu, the Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture at MIT, Claire Conceison, and translator Fang Zhang in this discussion of the historical, political, artistic, and personal context around the real events that inspired their play.