Chinese dance : in the vast land and beyond /
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| Authors / Creators: | , |
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Frederiksen, Lynn E., author. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: A Manifesto for Demarginalization
- Authors' Notes
- Introduction
- History: Dancing Through The Vast Land And Beyond
- Major Chinese Dynasties
- Ancient Dance and Early Chinese Writing
- Shamanism and Ritual Dance
- Confucianism
- Dance and Empire
- Tang Dynasty Dance
- Poetry
- Beginnings of Chinese Opera
- Foot Binding
- Repression of Folk Dance
- Theater in the Qing Dynasty
- Dance in the Opera
- Seventeenth-century Han Migration to Taiwan
- Setting the Stage: The Late Qing Dynasty to the Twenty-First Century
- Dance During Political Upheaval: Japanese Invasion, Civil War, and Communism
- Chinese Opera Dance
- Dance Schools
- Folk Dance
- Cultural Revolution and Beyond
- Dance Competitions
- Popular Culture
- Ceremonial and Religious Dances
- Modern Dance
- Dance Is The Prism: A Collaborative Journey Through Chinese Dance
- Performer-Audience Relationships
- Primacy of Form
- "What's in a Name?"
- West within the East: Classicism and Zhongguogudianwu
- Parsing the Beijing Olympic Ceremonies
- Government Support and the Emergence of Modern Dance
- Images of Identity
- Seven Interviews: Chinese Dance Artists In North America
- Lily Cai
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Lily Cai
- Nai-Ni Chen
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Nai-Ni Chen
- Lorita Leung
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Lorita Leung
- Yunyu Wang
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Yunyu Wang
- Yin Mei
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Yin Mei
- Jin-Wen Yu
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Jin-Wen Yu
- Yu Wei
- Artist's Statement
- Interview with Yu Wei
- Why Chinese Dance?
- Who Are Chinese People?
- Who Dances in Chinese Culture?
- What Is Behind the Curtain, in the Past and Now?
- What Is Chinese Dance?
- Where and When Do People Dance?
- How Are Chinese Dances Made?
- Why Have We Written a Book on Chinese Dance?
- Next Steps: The Database And The Art Of Education
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index