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Staging Tianxia

Staging Tianxia Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253070906
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.0951
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 390g
Height: 228mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 17mm