ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS ON CHINESE DANCE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY EMILY E. WILCOX College of William and Mary The following is a list of English-language scholarly writings on Chinese dance, broadly conceived, published from the 1950s through 2012. In order to capture the widest possible range of sources, the topics covered in these publications include dance-related activities of all kinds practiced by Chinese populations in China, Taiwan, and in the global Chinese diaspora. Publications on dances of ethnic groups included in the PRC ethnic minority classification system are in most cases included, as are publications on Chinese dance scholarship and criticism. Temporally, the topics range from ancient to contemporary periods. In some cases, books on Asian performance that include a section on Chinese dance are included when they represent a significant contribution to the field. In format, the publications listed here range from encyclopedia entries to books, and they include articles, theses, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. In some cases, individual essays from edited collections are given separate listings even when the volume in which they are contained is also listed. The reason for this is to provide the broadest coverage of scholars’ names and titles to give a sense of the composition of the field. The motivation for creating this list is a recognition of the relative lack of in-depth scholarship on Chinese dance currently available in English, in comparison both to English-language research on other forms of Chinese performance and to Chinese-language scholarship on Chinese dance. Were a similar bibliography to be made using Chinese-language publications on Chinese dance, the list would be many times as long as this one, since the study of Chinese dance in Chinese already constitutes a vibrant, institutionalized, and prolific field of research. Likewise, a survey of English-language sources on xiqu 戲曲 (Chinese indigenous theater), CHINOPERL Papers No. 31 (2012) ©2012 by the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature CHINOPERL Papers No. 31 Chinese music, or even huaju 話劇 (spoken drama) would yield a far greater number of publications than are listed below. It is under these circumstances that this bibliography was created and it is with two hopes in mind that it is has been offered up: one, that it will provide awareness of the existing English-language research on Chinese dance so that works on Chinese dance will be included in greater numbers in course syllabi and literature reviews; and two, that obvious lacunae will inspire new research. While some materials have certainly been left out of this list in error, the list does aim to be exhaustive and to provide a picture of the current “state of the field” of English-language work on Chinese dance. Sources were identified using major search tools such as the Bibliography of Asian Studies, UMI Proquest Digital Dissertation Database, WorldCat, and ArticlesPlus, as well as the author’s personal scholarly network. Inadvertent omissions likely reflect the author’s location and bias as an American scholar working primarily in the PRC. Efforts have been made to make the list as extensive as possible, and suggestions for additional items not included here are enthusiastically welcomed. Journalistic writings and short performance reviews have for the most part been omitted from this list (with the exception of biographical works and memoirs that offer significant original material for the English reader), and it instead focuses on publications with a scholarly focus. Reviews found in Beijing Review and Chinese Literature have not been included. Serious research into Chinese dance practiced in communities where English is not the primary language demands use of sources published outside the English language. An enormous wealth of materials is available in Chinese, including dance encyclopedias, dictionaries, curriculum guides, textbooks, personal memoirs, essay collections, and an enormous and growing field of academic monographs and scholarly articles. The list presented here is meant to serve as a guide for scholars and students interested in what is available on Chinese dance in English, with the knowledge that the English-language sources are extremely limited in comparison to what is available outside English. This bibliography serves as a potent reminder, therefore, of the need for multilingual research, as well as of the paucity and lop-sidedness of scholarship on any topic when looked at from only the viewpoint of what has been published in one language, even when that language is as hegemonic as English. 178 WILCOX, English-Language Publications on Chinese Dance Alexandrakis, Aphrodite (2006) “The Role of Music and Dance in Ancient Greek and Chinese Rituals: Form Versus Content.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.2: 267–78. Bai, Di (2010) “Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women.” In Richard King et al., eds. Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–76. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 188–202. Bernstein, Richard (2011) A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream. New York: Random House Digital, Inc. Bowers, Faubion (1956) Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama. New York: Nelson. Brown, Estelle T. (1978) “Toward a Structuralist Approach to Ballet: ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘The White Haired Girl.’” Western Humanities Review 32.3 (Summer): 227– 40. Brownell, Susan (2005) “Ballroom Dancing.” In Edward L. Davis, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. London: Routledge. 30. Chan, Vanessa S. (1990) The Flower Drum Dancers’ Guide to Chinese Dances. Gibbsboro, N.J.: Flower Drum Dancers. Chang, Eileen (2005 [1945]) “On Dance.” Written on Water. Andrew Jones, tr. New York: Columbia University Press. 173–88. Chang, Shih-Ming Li, and Lynn E. Frederiksen (2009) “Dance.” In David Pong, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern China. 2 Vols. Detroit; London: Gale Cengage Learning. 1: 382–86. Chang, Szu-Ching (2011) “Dancing with Nostalgia in Taiwanese Contemporary ‘Traditional’ Dance.” Ph.D. diss. University of California, Riverside. Chang, Ting-Ting (2008) “Choreographing the Peacock: Gender, Ethnicity, and National Identity 179 CHINOPERL Papers No. 31 in Chinese Ethnic Dance.” Ph.D. diss. University of California, Riverside. Chao, Chi-Fang (2009) “Holding Hands to Dance: Movement as Cultural Metaphor in the Dances of Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan.” Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 16.1–2 (Spring). Electronic. Chee, Wai-Ling Maria (1984) “References to Dance in the Shih Ching and Other Early Chinese Texts.” In Betty True Jones, ed. Dance as Cultural Heritage. New York: Cord. 126–44. Chen, Ching-Yun (2008) “An Analysis of Student Satisfaction with Dance Curriculum in Universities in Taiwan.” Ed.D. diss. United States Sports Academy. Chen, Ya-Ping (2003) “Dance History and Cultural Politics: A Study of Contemporary Dance in Taiwan, 1930s—1997.” Ph.D. diss. New York University. Chen, Ting (1994) “The Red Detachment of Women: A Study of the Evolution of Ballet in China.” M.A. thesis. University of Surrey. Chen, Ying-Chu (2008) “When Ballet Meets Taiwan: The Development and Survival of the Taiwanese Ballet.” Ph.D. diss. Temple University. Chen, Yu-shi (1985) “Spirits in Chinese Choreography.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Asian-Pacific Conference on the Preservation of Cultural Properties and Traditions-Workshop Seminar on Traditional Dance, 9-15 December 1984, Taipei. Taipei: Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region. 45–47. Cheng De-Hai (2000) “The Creation and Evolvement of Chinese Ballet: Ethnic and Esthetic Concerns in Establishing a Chinese Style of Ballet in Taiwan and Mainland China (1954–1994).” Ph.D. diss. New York University. Cheng, Duanzi (2011) “Musings on the Ruptures: Examining the Circulations of Chinese 180 WILCOX, English-Language Publications on Chinese Dance Modern Dance in the U.S.” M.A. thesis. University of California, Riverside. Chiang, Shiaw-chin (1985) “Studies on the Relationship Between Chinese Traditional Dance and Drama.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Asian-Pacific Conference on the Preservation of Cultural Properties and Traditions Workshop Seminar on Traditional Dance, 9–15 December 1984, Taipei. Taipei: Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region. 102–10. Christopher, Luella Sue (1979) “Pirouettes with Bayonets: Classical Ballet Metamorphosed as Dance- Drama and Its Usage in the People’s Republic of China as a Tool of Political Socialization.” Ph.D. diss. The American University. Chua, Adam Yuet (2006) “Drinking Games, Karaoke Songs, and ‘Yangge’ Dances: Youth Cultural Production in Rural China.” Ethnology 45.2: 161–72. Chung-kuo wu chü t’uan (1972[1970]) “Red Detachment of Women: A Modern Revolutionary Ballet.” Peking: Foreign Languages Press. Craine, Debra, and Judith Mackrell (2000) “Dai Ailian.” The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford Reference Online. Cui, Xianxiang (2010) “Lives of Old Women of Korean Nationality in Beijing: A Case of One Dance Team.” Asian Women 26.1: 81–101. Dai, Ailian (1986) “Ballet in China.” Britain-China 33 (Fall): 10–12. Davies, Gloria, and M. E. Davies (2010) “Jin Xing: China’s Transsexual Star of Dance.” In Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys, eds. Celebrity in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 169–91. Davis, R. G. (Winter 1973–1974) “‘The White-Haired Girl,’ A Modern Revolutionary Ballet.” Film Quarterly 27.2: 52–56. Davis, Sara L. M. (2006) “Dance or Else: China’s ‘Simplifying Project.’” China Rights Forum 4: 38–46. 181 CHINOPERL Papers No. 31 Delza, Sophia (1958) “The Dance in the Chinese Theater.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 16.4 (June): 437–52. _________ (1973) “The Dance Arts in the People’s Republic of China: The Contemporary Scene.” Asian Music 5.1: 28–39. _________ (1976) “The Dance-Arts in the People's Republic of China: The Contemporary Scene.” In Judy Van Zile, ed.