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Dance Studies in China

Selected Writings from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy

Zhang Yanjie

Intellect Books, 2022

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.

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Sacred Theatre

Ralph Yarrow

Intellect Books, 2007

The notion of the sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process, and performance of drama. While leaving enough room for the personal and experiential, Yarrow draws on concepts from sociology, anthropology, and critical theory as well as analytical readings of plays and performance events to examine how theater interacts with the otherworldly. This volume is essential reading for anyone intrigued by the intersection of drama and consciousness.

“This book takes on the enormous task of identifying not only the sacred in theatre but also questions ideas of sacred across the spectrum. It offers a great deal of material for discussion within performance and theatre theory courses.”—Jade Rosina McCutcheon, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, Davis

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Cultural Industries in Shanghai

Policy and Planning inside a Global City

Rong Yueming

Intellect Books, 2018

This volume gathers articles by Chinese scholars dealing with developments in Shanghai’s cultural industries over the past thirty years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political priority over the next decade. This book examines, among other aspects of Shanghai’s approach to culture, the effects of this policy focus on the city’s creative growth in economic terms.

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