Revolutionary Bodies : Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy / / Emily Wilcox.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) :; illustrations (some color), map |
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Table of 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.