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

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by...
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Author: Lanlan Kuang
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Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage by Kuang, Lanlan

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

$117.52

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

$117.52
Author: Lanlan Kuang
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Lanlan Kuang
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780253070906

About the Author

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).


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