Staging Tianxia

Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage

Lanlan Kuang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2024
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07089-0 (ISBN)

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Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation.

Author Lanlan Kuang unites multimedia ethnographic research and theoretical insights from ethnomusicology, philosophy, religious studies, performance studies, and cognitive science, with a focus on Dunhuang bihua yuewu, a modern interpretation inserted into the Chinese classical dance and theatrical arts tradition. Staging Tianxia thus aims to redefine Silk Road studies and Dunhuangology, a transdisciplinary field dedicated to studying the texts and art of Dunhuang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that connected China via the Silk Road with Central Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Staging Tianxia is a careful ethnographic study that looks at the importance of performance tradition and poetics in the arts and aesthetic theory of China.

Lanlan Kuang is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. She is Chair of the Florida Folklife Council and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Arts (CEFLA). Her fieldwork for this monograph received support from the Dunhuang Academy (DHRA) and the University of Central Florida. For more photos and videos from her fieldwork, you can visit her website, https://lanlankuangofficial.pub/

Acknowledgments
Notes on Translations, Pronunciations, and Style Rules
Cave Charts
1. Introduction
2. Tianxia, Chinascapes, and Dunhuang
3. Imagining Dunhuang: Literary Topography
4. Institutionalizing the Dunhuang bihua yuewu: Past and Present
5. Creating Dunhuang bihua yuewu: Key Concepts and Terms
6. Staging Dunhuang Arts in Context(s): Case Studies
7. Being-in-the-Field: Staged Dunhuang Arts and Intertextual Representations
8. Nation-Building: Dunhuang Meta-Elements in Peking Opera and Beyond
9. Coda: China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	21 b&w illus., 8 b&w tables
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-07089-9 / 0253070899
ISBN-13	978-0-253-07089-0 / 9780253070890
Zustand	Neuware