Combatting Anti-Asian Violence Through Chinese Dance in Atlanta

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Notes

1 I have written extensively on the historical development of contemporary Chinese dance choreography and the emergence and continuity of this three-part stylistic structure in China. See, for example, Emily Wilcox, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy (University of California Press, 2018).

2 For more on this history, see “Deconstructing the Model Minority at the University of Michigan—Vincent Chin,” https://aapi.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/aapi_michigan/page/chin.

3 On more recent developments in this effort, see the project Final Bow for Yellowface, https://www.yellowface.org/.

4 To read Kerry Lee’s blog, visit https://www.kerryylee.com/memoirs-of-a-chinese-dancer/.

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Funding

Fund for Historical Studies and the George F. Kennan Member Fund at the Institute for Advanced Study;

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Emily Wilcox

EMILY WILCOX is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary and Center Associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy, which won the 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize® from the Dance Studies Association. Wilcox is co-editor of Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia, Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method, Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, and is co-creator of the University of Michigan Chinese Dance Collection. Wilcox co-edits the book series “China Understandings Today” for the University of Michigan Press and “Dance in the 21^st Century” for Bloomsbury. She is co-founder and Chair of the Asian and Asian Diaspora Dance Studies Working Group of the Dance Studies Association, former President of the Association for Asian Performance, and a member of the Advisory Board of Dance Chronicle.