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Kwan, SanSan.

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Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity./
Author:	Kwan, SanSan.
Description:	278 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1444.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3089404

Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity.
Kwan, SanSan.

Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity. - 278 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1444.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2003.

This dissertation examines the performance of “Chineseness”—what is means to be Chinese—across transnational space through the global circulation of culture. I am interested in the ways in which the idea of Chineseness is both highly contested in different local contexts and, paradoxically, fiercely maintained as a collective consciousness across national borders. Not definable by national boundaries, biological essences, or even shared cultural norms, Chineseness is a mobile yet abiding idea. Using choreography—literally, the writing of movement—I mark the way “being Chinese” acquires shifting layers of meaning in its movement across and through four global cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and New York. My texts are both actual performance—for example, a dance company in Taipei—and the kinesthetic performativity of practices such as political protest in Hong Kong, retail fashion in New York, and urban design in Shanghai. I use dance not only as a subject, but also as a methodology, employing what I call “ethno/choreography”: a coming into knowledge of culture through the lived experience of the body in motion through space. The question driving this project is: what are the emergent forms of community, or even subjectivity, made possible through an increasingly transnational imaginary

Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity.
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