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Revolutionary Bodies : Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy /

"Revolutionary Bodies is the first primary source-based history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, it analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Us...

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Main Author: Wilcox, Emily, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dance.
Choreography.
Socialism and dance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Choregraphie > Chine > Histoire.
Danse > Chine > Histoire.
Choreography > China > History.
Socialism and dance > China > History.
Dance > China > History.
China.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Locating Chinese dance : bodies in place, history, and genre
  • From Trinidad to Beijing : Dai Ailian and the beginnings of Chinese dance
  • Experiments in form : creating dance in the early People's Republic
  • Performing a socialist nation : the golden age of Chinese dance
  • A revolt from within : contextualizing revolutionary ballet
  • The return of Chinese dance : socialist continuity post Mao
  • Inheriting the socialist legacy : Chinese dance in the twenty-first century.

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