When Words Are Inadequate av Nan (Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Dickinson College) Ma

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When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu Xiaobang, Dai Ailian, and Guo Mingda-and their connections to canonical Western counterparts, including Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Rudolf von Laban, and Alwin Nikolais. Tracing these Chinese pioneers'' varied experiences in Paris, Tokyo, Trinidad, London, New York, and China''s metropolises and borderlands, the book shows how their contributions adapted and reimagined the legacies of early Euro-American modern dance.In doing so, When Words are Inadequate reinserts China into the multi-centered, transnational network of artistic exchange that fostered the global rise of modern dance, further