Revolutionary Bodies
豆瓣
Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
Emily Wilcox
简介
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, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field.
目录
List of Illustrations and Audiovisual Media ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies in Place,History, and Genre 1
1. From Trinidad to Beijing: Dai Ailian and the Beginnings of Chinese Dance 13
2. Experiments in Form: Creating Dance in the Early People’s Republic 48
3. Performing a Socialist Nation: The Golden Age of Chinese Dance 78
4. A Revolt from Within: Contextualizing Revolutionary Ballet 119
5. The Return of Chinese Dance: Socialist Continuity Post-Mao 156
6. Inheriting the Socialist Legacy: Chinese Dance in the Twenty-First Century 186
Glossary of Chinese Terms 215
Notes and References 232
Index 286
