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Performance and postsocialism in postmillennial China / Rossella Ferrari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrari, Rossella, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the political, 2753-1244.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the political, 2753-1244
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--China--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--China--History--21st century.
- Theater--Political aspects--China--History--20th century.
- Theater--Political aspects--China--History--21st century.
- Post-communism--China.
- Post-communism.
- Politics and culture--China.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (74 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. Focusing on independent practitioners and postdramatic practices, it builds on theorisations of postsocialism as a state of temporal disjunction to propose a tripartite taxonomy structured around past, present, and future temporal regimes. The categories of postsocialist hauntologies, postsocialist realisms, and postsocialist futurities are introduced to investigate performance works that respectively revisit the socialist past, document present realities, and envision future imaginations. The intersection of competing temporalities and their performative manifestations reflects the disjunctive constitution of contemporary China, where past socialist legacies and futurological ambitions coexist within a fractured postsocialist present.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781009515924
- 1009515926
- 9781009515931
- 1009515934
- 9781009515900
- 100951590X
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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