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Author Wilcox, Emily, 1981- author.

Title Revolutionary bodies : Chinese dance and the socialist legacy / Emily Wilcox
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
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
Summary "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. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Emily 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"--Provided by publisher
Analysis anthropology
artistic
ballet
book with videos
china
chinese choreographers
chinese dance
concert dance
cultural revolution
dance in the 1900s
evolution of dance
history
pboc
russian dance
social science
soviet dance
Notes A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Wilcox, Emily 2019 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 17, 2022)
Subject Dance -- China -- History
Socialism and dance -- China -- History
Choreography -- China -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Socialism and dance
Choreography
Dance
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018023689
ISBN 0520971906
9780520971905