ABSTRACT
Jiadingxing 假定性 may be considered as one of the most important and the most widely used concepts in Chinese performing arts since the 1980s. It provided the most powerful momentum for modernist experiments in Chinese performing arts in the 1980s and the 1990s. However, Chinese stage artists’ attitudes toward and understanding of this essential concept varied in time. A review of this process shall cast some light on the conceptual and practical developments of Chinese performing arts.
