Chinese dance : in the vast land and beyond / Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Shih-Ming Li, author.

Frederiksen, Lynn E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--China--History.

Dance.

China.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 257 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]

Summary:

A comprehensive multimedia resource for study of Chinese culture through dance, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 History: Dancing Through the Vast Land and Beyond 11

Major Chinese Dynasties 11

Ancient Dance and Early Chinese Writing 12

Shamanism and Ritual Dance 14

Confucianism 15

Dance and Empire 19

Tang Dynasty Dance 20

Poetry 21

Beginnings of Chinese Opera 22

Foot Binding 23

Repression of Folk Dance 25

Theater in the Qing Dynasty 26

Dance in the Opera 27

Seventeenth-Century Han Migration to Taiwan 30

Setting the Stage: The Late Qing Dynasty to the Twenty-First Century 31

Dance Education 34

Dance during Political Upheaval: Japanese Invasion, Civil War, and Communism 39

Chinese Opera Dance 41

Dance Schools 44

Folk Dance 46

Cultural Revolution and Beyond 50

Dance Competitions 52

Popular Culture 53

Ceremonial and Religious Dances 54

Modern Dance 55

Chapter 2 Dance is the Prism: A Collaborative Journey through Chinese Dance 59

Performer-Audience Relationships 62

Primacy of Form 63

"What's in a Name?" 64

West within the East: Classicism and Zhongguogudianwu 65

Parsing the Beijing Olympic Ceremonies 70

Government Support and the Emergence of Modern Dance 75

Images of Identity 78

Chapter 3 Seven Interviews: Chinese Dance Artists in North America 80

Lily Cai 80

Artist's Statement

Interview with Lily Cai

Nai-Ni Chen 90

Interview with Nai-Ni Chen

Lorita Leung 101

Interview with Lorita Leung

Yunyu Wang 112

Interview with Yunyu Wang

Yin Mei 119

Interview with Yin Mei

Jin-Wen Yu 135

Interview with Jin-Wen Yu

Yu Wei 145

Interview with Yu Wei

Chapter 4 Why Chinese Dance? 156

Who Are Chinese People? 156

Who Dances in Chinese Culture? 157

What Is behind the Curtain, in the Past and Now? 160

What Is Chinese Dance? 167

Where and When Do People Dance? 169

How Are Chinese Dances Made? 174

Why Have We Written a Book on Chinese Dance? 178

Chapter 5 Next Steps: The Database and the Art of Education 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Chang, Shih-Ming Li. Chinese dance.

ISBN:

9780819576309

0819576301

9780819576316

081957631X

OCLC:

923650693