Revolutionary Bodies

Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-30057-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 444 g

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Revolutionary Bodies is the first English-language primary 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilcox, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies in Place,
History, and Genre
1. From Trinidad to Beijing: Dai Ailian and the Beginnings of
Chinese Dance
2. Experiments in Form: Creating Dance in the Early People’s Republic
3. Performing a Socialist Nation: The Golden Age of Chinese Dance
4. A Revolt from Within: Contextualizing Revolutionary Ballet
5. The Return of Chinese Dance: Socialist Continuity Post-Mao
6. Inheriting the Socialist Legacy: Chinese Dance in the
Twenty-First Century

Glossary of Chinese Terms
Notes and References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.