Sie befinden Sich nicht im Netzwerk der Universität Paderborn. Der Zugriff auf elektronische Ressourcen ist gegebenenfalls nur via VPN oder Shibboleth (DFN-AAI) möglich. mehr Informationen...
Les Chinois à Paris: The Red Detachment of Women and French Maoism in the Mid-1970s
Ist Teil von
China perspectives, 2020-01 (1), p.43-52
Ort / Verlag
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC)
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
PAIS Index
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Existing scholarship on the Chinese revolutionary ballet The Red Detachment of Women (1964) typically adopts a Sinocentric perspective, overlooking the ballet’s significance as part of international Cold War cultural politics rather than an isolated ideological project of Maoist China. To address this shortcoming, this essay argues that the historical production of The Red Detachment was in dialogic relations with other foreign performing works produced in different yet overlapping cultural-political contexts. That is, the meaning of the ballet is not just located within the performing “text” itself or its immediate context, but also in the dialogic space between “texts.” To demonstrate this, the essay examines the “intertextuality” between The Red Detachment and a French satirical comedy The Chinese in Paris (Les Chinois à Paris, 1974) in relation to French Maoism in the early to mid-1970s.