01PRACTICE SYSTEM
P4 Theater
Begin with P4 as a practice system built from live presence, relation, participation, writing and action generation—not simply as a venue or company.
WRITING · TRANSLATION · SOURCE RECORDS
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P4’s complete Chinese texts and editorial English reading editions belong to the main domain. This archive keeps the documentary layer: source, classification, project relation and original images.
ONE CORPUS · TWO INTERFACES
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SEO AND EDITORIAL OWNERSHIP
One text should not compete with itself
The two domains have deliberately different jobs. Full reading editions consolidate discovery and translation on the main site; the archive contributes evidence, context and deep links without creating a second competing copy of the same article.
Broad field questions belong to the main-site guide to Chinese experimental theater; organization-specific questions begin with the P4 Theater profile. This archive page routes readers from those edited explanations back to the records that support them.
01 / DOMAIN ROLE
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Complete bilingual reading editions
Canonical Chinese articles, editorial English versions, English tags, entity definitions and thematic reading paths live on the main domain.
Open the English reading archive02 / DOMAIN ROLE
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Source records and archival relations
Publication source, account, date, classification, project membership and preserved images remain available in the public archive.
Browse original-language source recordsCURATED ENGLISH PATHS
Six themes for entering P4 writing
Start with an entity or project rather than reading chronologically. Each path pairs an English orientation page with the source records that sustain it.
02FILM / THEATRE LINEAGE
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
Read recruitment, rehearsal, film, performance, criticism and later theory as one long project lineage rather than isolated outputs.
03PERSON / PRACTICE
He Fa
A person-entry connecting P4 Theater, moving image, writing, teaching, Real Image, Human Surrender and the formation of AGT.
04METHOD CONCEPT
Actor-Generated Topology (AGT)
A method vocabulary for asking how actors, positions, relations and live situations generate action and temporary structures.
05KEY EVENT
The Last Rehearsal
A central event inside Human Surrender, joining public performance, film production, participant writing and later critical response.
06EARLY METHOD LINE
Real Image
An early P4 project around photography, one-to-one encounter, seeing again and the way relations become visible through images.
WHAT THE ARCHIVE ADDS
A record is more than its body text
When you arrive from an English article, use the source record to inspect how, when and inside which project the text became public. The archive is designed for verification and relation, not duplicate publication.
Source and provenance
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Classification
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Project relations
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Preserved images
Keep publicly cleared original images alongside the record so visual sequence and documentary context remain available.
Choose the interface that matches your question
Read and search in English on the main site. Return to the archive when you need the original source, images, classification or a route into related project records.