World Art History. Dance Volume

Author: Ou Jianping
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Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is the 24th new work by the renowned dance critic Ou Jianping, titled "World Art History: Dance Volume." It is a culmination of the author's extensive travels to Europe and America, where he studied, observed, discussed, and wrote about dance. The book offers a fresh perspective on world dance. With a lively and anecdotal style, it depicts highly representative Eastern dances such as belly dance, Egyptian dance, and hula, while also organizing the dance histories and current states of 12 countries—including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan—into a national history framework. This structure breaks the traditional "Eurocentric" framework commonly used in previous "World Art History" works, ensuring that dance from China and the entire East receives significant attention and nearly half of the book's content.