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- Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
- 2018
- Book
- Published by: University of California Press
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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.
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.
Table of Contents
- Publisher page
- pp. a-b
- Half-Title
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Dedication
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xv
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- pp. 215-231
- Notes and References
- pp. 232-285
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520971905
Related ISBN(s)
9780520300576
MARC Record
OCLC
1043052885
Pages
322
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-11
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
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