Revolutionary Bodies
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Revolutionary Bodies

Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

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Revolutionary Bodies

Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

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A free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at theTOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. Revolutionary Bodies is the firstEnglish-languageprimary source–based history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China's dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520971905
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction. Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies in Place, History, and Genre
  9. 1. From Trinidad to Beijing: Dai Ailian and the Beginnings of Chinese Dance
  10. 2. Experiments in Form: Creating Dance in the Early People’s Republic
  11. 3. Performing a Socialist Nation: The Golden Age of Chinese Dance
  12. 4. A Revolt from Within: Contextualizing Revolutionary Ballet
  13. 5. The Return of Chinese Dance: Socialist Continuity Post-Mao
  14. 6. Inheriting the Socialist Legacy: Chinese Dance in the Twenty-First Century
  15. Glossary of Chinese Terms
  16. Notes and References