Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China by Nicholas Rowe
By Nicholas Rowe
This new booklet unearths the ways that the peoples of the South China Sea sector have used dance as a way of contending with the large political, fiscal and cultural rifts that experience affected their lives. Drawing at the tales of indigenous dancers in southern China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, it bargains specific insights into the ways that humans have used inventive circulation as a way of knowing the divisions and alienation that clash, diaspora and globalization have introduced and as a primary step in the direction of reclaiming their identities and their worlds.
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