Reflections on Narrative Techniques and Popularization in Contemporary China’s Main Melody Dance Dramas

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Notes

1 Yong bu xiaoshi de dianbo 永不消逝的电波. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7DHjnPfEQ.

2 From a review by Liu Miao in The Paper: https://m.thepaper.cn/baijiahao_17484760.

3 Zhici qinglü 只此青绿. Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlUvIV50Ww. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry396Wxr0-8.

4 Wuxing chu dongfang 五星出东方. Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLUArdeZvQM.

5 Yongchun 咏春. Excerpts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1XB8ZG3sms.

6 Qian li jiang shan tu 千里江山图: a famous Song Dynasty landscape painting by Wang Ximeng 王希孟 housed in The Palace Museum in Beijing.

7 Reference to a Tang Dynasty poem by Du Mu 杜牧 (803-852). Translation from https://100tangpoems.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/dispelling-sorrow-du-mu/.

8 Reference to a Tang Dynasty poem by Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831). Translation mine.

9 襦裙: a type of clothing consisting of a short jacket worn under a long skirt.

10 Reference to Daodejing. Translation from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49965/49965-h/49965-h.

11 Tanggong yeyan 唐宫夜宴. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPuAUcQvGGM.

12 #千里江山图活了#, #舞蹈诗剧只此青绿#.

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Notes on contributors

Ni Jin

NI JIN is Associate Professor of Dance at Jilin University of Arts and holds a PhD in Dance Studies from Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin, China.

Emily Wilcox

EMILY WILCOX is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.