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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wilcox, Emily, 1981- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland : University of California Press 2019
Berkeley, CA : [2018]
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432222706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.