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2 books match the query 'Revolutionary Age'
Chinese Dance
National Movements in a Revolutionary AgeLiangyu Fu & Emily Wilcox
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019
This book documents and expands upon the exhibition “Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965,” which was on display at the Hatcher Library at the University of Michigan in the Spring of 2017. Emily Wilcox and Liangyu Fu co-curated this exhibition to showcase the Asia Library’s recently formed Chinese Dance Collection, which is currently the largest of its kind in North America. Drawing upon Wilcox’s expertise as a leading scholar of Chinese dance studies, the book contextualizes the University of Michigan Collection’s materials and offers an accessibly written, concise, and richly illustrated introduction to a foundational period of modern Chinese dance history. The book links dance to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. It also details previously unknown stories of individual dancers and choreographers and explores relationships among dance, popular media, and global exchange.
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Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary AgeEdited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known and highly regarded feminist intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. With her contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she was one of the predominant writers of the Transcendentalist movement, and she aligned herself in both her public and private life with the European revolutionary fervor of the 1840s. She traveled to Italy as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune to cover the nascent revolutions, pursuing the transnational ideal awakened in her youth by a classical education in European languages and a Romantic curiosity about other cultures, traditions, and identities.
This volume is a collaboration of international scholars who, from varied fields and approaches, assess Fuller’s genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fuller’s short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of Fuller’s unique cultural, political, and personal achievements. From the origins and articulations of Fuller’s cosmopolitanism to her examination of “the woman question,” and from her fascination with the European “other” to her candid perception of imperial America from abroad, they ponder what such an extraordinary woman meant to America, and also to Italy and Europe, during her lifetime and continuing to the present.
This volume is a collaboration of international scholars who, from varied fields and approaches, assess Fuller’s genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fuller’s short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of Fuller’s unique cultural, political, and personal achievements. From the origins and articulations of Fuller’s cosmopolitanism to her examination of “the woman question,” and from her fascination with the European “other” to her candid perception of imperial America from abroad, they ponder what such an extraordinary woman meant to America, and also to Italy and Europe, during her lifetime and continuing to the present.
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