{"665222":{"#nid":"665222","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Traveling \u0027Princess\u0027 and Dancing \u0027Diplomat\u0027: Yu Rongling, Corporeal Modernity, and Isadora Duncan in the Early 1900s China","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis talk is based on the first chapter of Nan Ma\u2019s book \u003Cem\u003EWhen Words Are Inadequate: Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China\u003C\/em\u003E. The book rewrites the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of global dance modernism. It examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers and their connections to canonical Western counterparts, including Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Rudolf von Laban, and Alwin Nikolais. Tracing these Chinese pioneers\u0027 varied experiences both at home and abroad, the book shows how they adapted and reimagined the legacies of early Euro-American modern dance. In doing so, Ma reinserts China into the multi-centered, transnational network of artistic exchange that fostered the global rise of modern dance, complicating the binary conceptions of center and periphery and East and West. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis talk focuses on chapter one, featuring Yu Rongling (ca. 1888\u20131973), daughter of a top-rank Qing diplomat and one of the first students of Isadora Duncan in early 1900s Paris. Ma traces Yu\u2019s dance learning experiences with Duncan in Paris and her international travel from Paris to the late Qing court, where Yu transformed Isadora Duncan\u2019s \u201cGreek dance\u201d into its Chinese counterpart under the auspices of Empress Dowager Cixi. The study rethinks the origin of dance modernism and feminism as global and multiple in nature and of the evolving late Qing court as part of global modernities.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENan Ma is an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Department of East Asian Studies of Dickinson College. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ma conducts research on modern Chinese literature, film, visual culture, and dance and performance studies and is the author of \u003Cem\u003EWhen Words Are Inadequate: Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China\u003C\/em\u003E. Her articles on Chinese modern dance, ballet, and film appeared in \u003Cem\u003EModern Chinese Literature and Culture\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EChina Perspectives\u003C\/em\u003E, and the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Beijing Dance Academy\u003C\/em\u003E. 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