Dashan has returned to live performing for the first time since the pandemic! Next show will be Dashan & Friends in Vancouver on April 29, 2023.
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Jiang Kun's performance on the 2022 "Chunwan" was strikingly similar to a show I had done in 2019 in Toronto.
[December, 2021] It didn't feel like a busy year. I spent just about the entire time at home with family. Yet looking back, it seems to have actually been kinda productive.
My interests took a more classical turn in 2020. Live performing and touring have not been possible during COVID, but that has also opened up new opportunities for producing original content in my home studio.
Narrating the memoirs of a Canadian doctor who led a refugee camp in Henan during the Japanese occupation of 1938, available on Soundcloud and Ximalaya.
A county official with an outsized reputation as a "master calligrapher" is put to the test.
Adapted from a traditional xiangsheng piece, this was one of the last live performances I did before the pandemic struck.
[June, 2020] Live performances gradually came to a halt as the pandemic spread. Where do we go from here?
One of the first xiangsheng I ever performed, recorded in Shanghai in early 1990. The ending was censored for television broadcast, but has been restored here.
[November, 2019] The Bookworm has been a cradle for Chinese language stand-up, and was the stage where I first tried out new material for "Dashan Live"
For more information and video samples, go to Dashan Live
The "Dashan Story" in 60 seconds
"A distinguished scholar and blockhead" (animated calligraphy)
