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Examines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyse Han’s art and activism and to explore how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times.

The AvantGarde and the Popular in Modern China

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/15/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472052172, 978-0472052172
      ISBN10: 0472052179
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      Book Synopsis
      Examines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyse Han’s art and activism and to explore how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times.

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