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Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia

Katherine Mezur and Emily Wilcox, Editors 2020
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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.

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  • Studies in Dance History series
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  • 978-0-472-07455-6 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12694-1 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05455-8 (paper)
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  • Dance
  • Asian Studies
  • Theater and Performance
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and East Asian Names
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Contested Genealogies
    • Chapter 1. Sexuality, Status, and the Female Dancer
    • Chapter 2. Mei Lanfang and Modern Dance
    • Chapter 3. The Conflicted Monk
  • Part 2: Decolonizing Migration
    • Chapter 4. Murayama Tomoyoshi and Dance of Modern Times
    • Chapter 5. Korean Dance Beyond Koreanness
    • Chapter 6. Diasporic Moves
    • Chapter 7. Choreographing Neoliberal Marginalization
  • Part 3: Militarization and Empire
    • Chapter 8. Masking Japanese Militarism as a Dream of Sino-Japanese Friendship
    • Chapter 9. Imagined Choreographies
    • Chapter 10. Exorcism and Reclamation
  • Part 4: Socialist Aesthetics
    • Chapter 11. Choe Seung-hui Between Classical and Folk
    • Chapter 12. The Dilemma of Chinese Classical Dance
    • Chapter 13. Negotiating Chinese Identity through a Double-Minority Voice and the Female Dancing Body
  • Part 5: Collective Technologies
    • Chapter 14. Cracking History’s Codes in Crocodile Time
    • Chapter 15. Fans, Sashes, and Jesus
    • Chapter 16. Choreographing Digital Performance in Twenty-First-Century Taiwan
    • Coda
  • Contributors
  • Index

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Figure 6.1. Dai Ailian poses on a rock ledge looking up toward the sky. Her arms are outstretched, her legs lunging, and she wears a costume like the flag of the Republic of China.

Dai Ailian in Guerilla March, 1940

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Fig. 6.1. Dai Ailian in Hong Kong performing a dance pose from her solo dance Guerilla March. South China Morning Post, October 16, 1940. Photographer unknown. Used with permission of South China Morning Post. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.mpub.11521701.cmp.11.

Figure 6.2. Dai Ailian performs Tibetan dance in long dress with striped apron. She stamps her feet in boots with thick, flat soles and flings long sleeves over one shoulder.

Dai Ailian in Ba’an xianzi, 1946

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Page 124 →Fig 6.2. Dai Ailian performing her Tibetan dance Ba’an xianzi, which she premiered in Chongqing in 1946. Yiwen huabao 艺文画报2, no. 5, 1947, p. 6. Reproduction provided by the Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911–1949), Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin (CNBKSY), Shanghai Library. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.12.


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Dance On Interview with Dai Ailian, 1983 (institutional login required)

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Video of Dai Ailian performing The Mute Carries the Cripple, 1947

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Video of Dai Ailian performing Yao Drum, 1947

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