History of Dance in New China: 1949~2000: History of Art in New China

Author: Feng Shuangbai
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book describes the development trajectory of New China's dance art from a macro perspective. It weaves together the winding and fluctuating historical process of New China's dance development through specific and significant dance historical events. It outlines a basic picture of the development of New China's dance. The author, after years of dedicated research, provides readers with many valuable historical documents and materials, making it highly practical for reference. It is believed that readers will surely find the help they need from this book. Based on extensive historical materials, this book analyzes the historical development trajectory of Chinese dance art from 1949 to 2000, using major dance historical events as the basis for historical periods. It is divided into six chapters, organizing the basic historical phenomena of New China's dance art, including its career overview, creative achievements, evolution of dance genres, outstanding figures, major organizational activities, and more. Furthermore, by taking the development of China's primitive dance and feudal dance as a reference coordinate, it proposes that New China's dance represents a revolutionary transformation of China's female dance culture and folk self-entertainment dance culture. Its historical essence is to establish a truly creative art, and its direction is to establish an independent and autonomous artistic aesthetic expression system in the 21st century.