Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

Emily Wilcox

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2018

Revolutionary Bodies

Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

Emily Wilcox

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520971905

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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.

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Wilcox Emily :

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies in Place, History, and Genre Open Access Download PDF	1
1. From Trinidad to Beijing: Dai Ailian and the Beginnings of Chinese Dance Open Access Download PDF	13
2. Experiments in Form: Creating Dance in the Early People’s Republic Open Access Download PDF	48
3. Performing a Socialist Nation: The Golden Age of Chinese Dance Open Access Download PDF	78
4. A Revolt from Within: Contextualizing Revolutionary Ballet Open Access Download PDF	119
5. The Return of Chinese Dance: Socialist Continuity Post-Mao Open Access Download PDF	156
6. Inheriting the Socialist Legacy: Chinese Dance in the Twenty-First Century Open Access Download PDF	186
Glossary of Chinese Terms Open Access Download PDF	215
Notes and References Open Access Download PDF	232
Index Open Access Download PDF	286

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 322

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Published: October 23, 2018
ISBN: 9780520971905