Contents
Introduction: Toward a Critical East Asian Dance Studies (Emily Wilcox)
Part 1: Contested Genealogies
Chapter 1. Sexuality, Status, and the Female Dancer: Legacies of Imperial China (Beverly Bossler)
Chapter 2. Mei Lanfang and Modern Dance: Transcultural Innovation in Peking Opera, 1910s–1920s (Catherine Yeh)
Chapter 3. Te Conficted Monk: Choreographic Adaptations of
Si Fan (Longing for the Mundane) in Japan’s and China’s New Dance Movements (Nan Ma)
Part 2: Decolonizing Migration
Chapter 4. Murayama Tomoyoshi and Dance of Modern Times: A Forerunner of the Japanese Avant-garde (Kazuko Kuniyoshi)
Chapter 5. Korean Dance Beyond Koreanness: Park Yeong-in in the German Modern Dance Scene (Okju Son)
Chapter 6. Diasporic Moves: Sinophone Epistemology in the Choreography of Dai Ailian (Emily Wilcox)
Chapter 7. Choreographing Neoliberal Marginalization: Dancing Migrant Bodies in the South Korean Musical
Bballae (Laundry) (Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh)
Part 3: Militarization and Empire
Chapter 8. Masking Japanese Militarism as a Dream of Sino-Japanese Friendship:
Miyako Odori Performances in the 1930s (Mariko Okada)
Chapter 9. Imagined Choreographies: Itō Michio’s Philippines Pageant and the Transpacifc Performance of Japanese Imperialism (Tara Rodman)
Chapter 10. Exorcism and Reclamation: Lin Lee-chen’s
Jiao and the Corporeal History of the Taiwanese (Ya-ping Chen)
Part 4: Socialist Aesthetics
Chapter 11. Choe Seung-hui Between Classical and Folk: Aesthetics of National Form and Socialist Content in North Korea (Suzy Kim)
Chapter 12. Te Dilemma of Chinese Classical Dance: Traditional or Contemporary? (Dong Jiang)
Chapter 13. Negotiating Chinese Identity through a Double-Minority Voice and the Female Dancing Body: Yang Liping’s
Spirit of the Peacock and Beyond (Ting-Ting Chang)
Part 5: Collective Technologies
Chapter 14. Cracking History’s Codes in Crocodile Time: The Sweat, Powder, and Glitter of Women Butoh Artists’ Collective Choreography (Katherine Mezur)
Chapter 15. Fans, Sashes, and Jesus: Evangelical Activism and Anti-LGBTQ Performance in South Korea (Soo Ryon Yoon)
Chapter 16. Choreographing Digital Performance in Twenty-First-Century Taiwan:
Huang Yi & KUKA (Yatin Lin)
Coda: To Dance East Asia (Katherine Mezur)
Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following citable URL
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701