Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
ISBN-10
0520300572
ISBN-13
9780520300576
Category
Social Science
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2018-10-23
Publisher
University of California Press
Author
Emily Wilcox

Description

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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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