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Revolutionary Bodies

Author : Emily Wilcox
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520300572
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Bodies written by Emily Wilcox and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

The History of Chinese Dance

Author : Kefen Wang
Publisher : Beijing : Foreign Languages Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of Chinese Dance written by Kefen Wang and published by Beijing : Foreign Languages Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dragon Dance

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142400009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Dragon Dance written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great introduction to the customs of Lunar New Year. This interactive lift-the-flap book is perfect for parents and early readers to enjoy together! It's Lunar New Year and there are so many fun things to do! Shopping at the outdoor market for fresh flowers, eating New Year's dinner with the whole family, receiving red envelopes from Grandma and Grandpa, and best of all-watching the spectacular Lunar New Year's parade! Illustrated by Benrei Huang.

Chinese Lion Dance Explained

Author : William C. Hu
Publisher : Ars Ceramica
ISBN 13 : 9780893440381
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Lion Dance Explained written by William C. Hu and published by Ars Ceramica. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Dance

Author : Shih-Ming Li Chang
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819576328
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Dance written by Shih-Ming Li Chang and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China becomes increasingly important in world relations, many components of the country’s cultural arts remain unknown outside its borders. Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen’s Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond undertakes the challenge of discovering the relationship between Chinese dance in its many forms and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad. As a comprehensive resource, Chinese Dance offers students and scholars an invaluable introduction to the subject. It serves as a foundation of common knowledge from which Chinese and English-language communities can begin a cross-cultural conversation about Chinese dance. The text, along with a comprehensive glossary of key terms, gives English-language readers a chance to understand the development of Chinese dance as it is officially articulated by historians and dance scholars in Asia. An online database of video clips, an extensive bibliography, and Web-based appendices provide a broad collection of primary source materials that invite interactive and flexible engagement by a range of users. The inclusion of interviews with Chinese dance practitioners in North America offers a view into the Asian diaspora experience.

Dance Studies in China

Author : Zhang Yanjie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789385274
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Dance Studies in China written by Zhang Yanjie and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated journal articles, available in English for the first time. Officially founded in 1978, the Beijing Dance School was the first professional dance school established after the creation of the People's Republic of China. In the years since, the Beijing Dance Academy has become the only institution of higher learning for professional dance education in the country, as well as the largest prestigious dance school in the world. It is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitments to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers, and dance researchers. Dance Studies in China is a collection of articles selected from issues of the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, the only academic journal of dance studies in China. The collection also includes an interview with Shen Wei, the Chinese American choreographer, painter, and director living in New York.

Mao's Last Dancer

Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014104022X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Cunxin tells his story, tracing his life from his early childhood among the Chinese peasantry and his being thrust into the world of ballet, through his winning a scholarship to America and his eventual defection to the West in 1981, knowing that he would never see his family again.

Lion Dancer

Author : Kate Waters
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0590430475
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Lion Dancer written by Kate Waters and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernie Wan is very excited for the Chinese New Year festival. He is dancing the lion dance for the first time

The Story of Dai Ailian

Author : Richard Glasstone
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Dai Ailian written by Richard Glasstone and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormously respected and influential figure in China, both for her wide research into Chinese folk dance and her pivotal role in the establishment of ballet in China, the achievements of the teacher and choreographer Dai Ailian are not well known in the west. Here is her story, set in the wide social and historical context it deserves -- Provided by the publisher.

Corporeal Politics

Author : Katherine Mezur
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054554
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Corporeal Politics written by Katherine Mezur and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts

Author : Levi S. Gibbs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045843
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts written by Levi S. Gibbs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies examining the individual’s role in how traditional Chinese performing arts like music and dance are represented, maintained, and cultivated. Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. These artists and their artistic works—the “faces of tradition” —come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production in China today. The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which performances and recordings, including singing competitions, textual anthologies, ethnographic videos, and CD albums, serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves. By focusing on the performance, scholarship, collection, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance from a variety of disciplines—these case studies highlight the importance of the individual in determining how traditions have been and are represented, maintained, and cultivated. “Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts [examines] the dynamic relationship between individual representatives of tradition and the evolution of the traditions themselves.” —A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University, Choice

A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore

Author : Chong Guan Kwa
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813277653
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore written by Chong Guan Kwa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)

50 Years of the Chinese Community in Singapore

Author : Cheng Lian Pang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814675415
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book 50 Years of the Chinese Community in Singapore written by Cheng Lian Pang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's golden jubilee with pride. In the short space of five decades the country has moved from Third World to First, and its real GDP has grown by 40 times! For this phenomenal progress, credit must go to its people, the Republic's primary resource. Against all odds and amidst dire predictions, Singaporeans proved that a united and resourceful community could build a nation from scratch. This book is dedicated to one segment of these Singaporeans--the Chinese community. In particular, this collection of essays focuses on the Chinese speaking members of the community whose many contributions are less familiar to those brought up on a strict diet of the English language"--

Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore

Author : Soh Kay Cheng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811670668
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore written by Soh Kay Cheng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is cast in a Singaporean context in which Chinese Language is taught as a second language with an emphasis on communicational skills. It showcases ideas on including cultural teaching to enhance second language learning for more effective outcomes. As a collection of chapters relevant to cultural teaching, the book seeks to enthuse Chinese Language educators to incorporate elements of Chinese culture into their lessons. It is practice-oriented and provides examples using Chinese language textbooks, with suggestions for post-lesson activities. It also documents and discusses the needed developments of Singapore's Chinese culture with references to the three popular co-curricular activities of Chinese music, drama (crosstalk), and dance in schools.

Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform

Author : Xiaomei Chen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047207475X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform written by Xiaomei Chen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied however is how cultural events, and theater reforms in particular, contributed to the dynamic landscape of contemporary Chinese society. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform fills this gap by investigating the theories and practice of socialist theater and their effects on a diverse range of genres, including Western-style spoken drama, Chinese folk opera, dance drama, Shanghai opera, Beijing opera, and rural theater. Focusing on the 1950s and ’60s, when theater art occupied a prominent political and cultural role in Maoist China, this book examines the efforts to remake theater in a socialist image. It explores the unique dynamics between official discourse, local politics, performance practice, and audience reception that emerged under the pressures of highly politicized cultural reform as well as the off-stage, lived impact of rapid policy change on individuals and troupes obscured by the public record. This multidisciplinary collection by leading scholars covers a wide range of perspectives, geographical locations, specific research methods, genres of performance, and individual knowledge and experience. The richly diverse approach leads readers through a nuanced and complex cultural landscape as it contributes significantly to our understanding of a crucial period in the development of modern Chinese theater and performance.

The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

Author : Arlene Chan
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459700945
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 written by Arlene Chan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese have become a vibrant part of Toronto’s multiculturalism, with no less than seven Chinatowns created since 1984. Short-listed for the 2013 Speaker’s Book Award and for the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastward in search of employment and a more welcoming place. In 1894 Toronto’s Chinese population numbered fifty. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve what has become the second-largest visible minority in the city, with a population of half a million. In these pages, you will find their stories told through historical accounts, archival and present-day photographs, newspaper clippings, and narratives from old-timers and newcomers. With achievements spanning all walks of life, the Chinese in Toronto are no longer looking in from outside society’s circle. Their lives are a vibrant part of the diverse mosaic that makes Toronto one of the most multicultural cities in the world.

D Is for Dragon Dance

Author : Ying Chang Compestine
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781606860106
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book D Is for Dragon Dance written by Ying Chang Compestine and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From firecrackers to noodles, from red envelopes to the zodiac, young readers are introduced to the exciting traditions of the Chinese New Year in this accessible and visually stunning homage to the holiday. Full color.