Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China by Nicholas Rowe

By Nicholas Rowe

The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent historical past. at the present time territorial disputes within the zone - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it very likely essentially the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure shores.

This new booklet unearths the ways that the peoples of the South China Sea sector have used dance as a way of contending with the large political, fiscal and cultural rifts that experience affected their lives. Drawing at the tales of indigenous dancers in southern China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, it bargains specific insights into the ways that humans have used inventive circulation as a way of knowing the divisions and alienation that clash, diaspora and globalization have introduced and as a primary step in the direction of reclaiming their identities and their worlds.

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Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea

The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent historical past. this day territorial disputes within the area - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it very likely some of the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure seashores.

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