The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics

386 Pages·2014·2.653 MB·English

by  Liang Luo

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The Avant- Garde and the Popular in Modern China
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The Avant- Garde and the
Popular in Modern China
tian han and the intersection
of performance and politics
Liang Luo 羅靚
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
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Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2014
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To the Loving Memory of My Father, Luo Fuxu 羅富旭 (1947– 2006)
For My Family in Chongqing, Lexington, and Täby
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Acknowledgments
I have incurred so many debts writing this book. It gives me great pleasure to
have an opportunity to express my gratitude here. I thank Professors Leo Ou-
fan Lee, David Der- wei Wang, Wilt L. Idema, and Andrew Gordon for helping
me lay the foundation for this book in my dissertation and continuing to offer
inspiration to this day. I am truly grateful for their unwavering support. David
Der- wei Wang, Wilt L. Idema, and Pär Cassel read the manuscript and offered
valuable feedback in the past few years. Xiaomei Chen and three anonymous
readers read the manuscript throughout the review process and provided cru-
cial guidance. My editor at the University of Michigan Press, LeAnn Fields,
her assistant, Alexa Ducsay, and the project manager for my book at the press,
Marcia LaBrenz, have all been most helpful and a pleasure to work with.
I am truly grateful to the following colleagues and friends who read ear-
lier iterations of parts of the manuscript and offered feedback: Russell Berman,
Miranda Brown, Theodore Fiedler, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Jennifer Goodlander,
Denise Ho, Gordon Hogg, Masamichi (Marro) Inoue, Andrew Kimbrough,
Haiyan Lee, Valerie Levan, Joseph O’Neil, Christine de Pee, Suzanne Pucci,
David Rolston, Douglas Slaymaker, Akiko Takenaka, Ban Wang, Matthew
Wells, Yiching Wu, and Hui Faye Xiao.
I have drawn strength and inspiration from the many wonderful scholars
and friends who became part of my professional life in Mainland China and
the United States over the years, and I must also thank the many individuals
in Japan, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Taiwan whose
generosity has helped to make my research and lecture trips both fruitful and
enjoyable. Although this list is necessarily incomplete, I thank, in particular,
Cristina Alcalde, Jennifer Altehenger, Ashida Hajime, Mingzhen Bao, Wei-
hong Bao, Srimati Basu, Theodore Bestor, Kate Black, Susan Bordo, George
Bornstein, Anna Brzyski, Duncan Campbell, Dongshin Chang, Ch’a T’ae-g ŭn,
Anarchichi Chen, Jianhua Chen, Liana Chen, Ya- chen Chen, Chen Yongguo,
Likkwan Cheung, Robert Chi, Eileen Cheng- yin Chow, Rey Chow, Joscha
Chung, Claire Conceison, Verena Coney, Jacqueline Couti, Annika Culver,
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viii acknowledgments
Kirk A. Denton, Xinyu Dong, Dong Limin, Liliana Drucker, Fredrik Fällman,
Geraldine Fiss, Christopher Forth, Fujii Shōzō, Qian Gao, Mary Gluck, Beth
Goldstein, Joshua Goldstein, Laurence Goldstein, Frederik Green, Anup Gre-
wal, Guo Yingde, Lorri Hagman, William Hammell, Han Kuo-H uang, Satoru
Hashimoto, Man He, Shana Herron, Qin Higley, Kazuko Hioki, Carma Hin-
ton, Maeda Hisaka, Michel Hockx, Hu Jiangfeng, Alexa Huang, Nicole Huang,
Chang- tai Hung, Theodore Huters, Kim Su- yŏn, Kotari Ichirō, Inata Naomi,
Gerald Janecek, Jian Yi, Hui Jiang, Wei Jiang, Jiang Yuanlun, Marja Kaikkonen,
Thomas Kampen, Kathi Kern, Shigehisha Kuriyama, Lai Xia, Charles Laughlin,
Yuk Ying Lee, James Lee, Minggang Li, Li Runxia, Waiyee Li, Li Zhengrong,
Zhiying Li, Yi- chieh Lin, Chiung- yun Liu, Liu Hongtao, Liu Xiangyu, Liu Yong,
Sheldon Lu, Luo Gang, Christopher Lupke, Ma Hailiang, Kenny Kwok- Kwan
Ng, Lien- Hang Nguyen, Maruyama Noboru, Andrew Maske, Huajing Maske,
Jason McGrath, Meng Dengying, Jiayan Mi, Barbara Mittler, Ōki Yasushi,
Stephen Owen, Shaw- Yu Pan, Pu Bo, Jeff Richey, Steve Riep, Cynthia Ruder,
Joanna Rutter, Leon Sachs, Saji Toshihiko, Tze- lan D. Sang, Rosemary Schindler
(Xin Li), Shi Zhecun, Shu- mei Shih, Darryl Sterk, G. Andrew Stuckey, André
Stufkens, Ronald Suleski, Keiko Tanaka, Xiaobing Tang, Tao Dongfeng, Karen
Thornber, Tian Benxiang, Tian Dawei, Tian Qinxin, Tian Shen (Tian Hainan),
Xiaofei Tian, Karen Tice, Hitomi Tonomura, Caitlin Joan Torres, Jing Tsu, Tu
Weiming, Nicolai Volland, Anna Voskresensky, Rudolf Wagner, Cecilia Wang,
Wang Dan, Eugene Wang, Wang Furen, Wang Guimei, Wang Xiangyuan, Wang
Yichuan, Yugen Wang, Wang Zheng, Kristen Wanner, Jeff Wasserstrom, Vivien
Yan Wei, Jeanmarie Rouhier-W illoughby, Linda Worley, Shengqing Wu, Wu
Wenguang, Lanjun Xu, Haiping Yan, Yang Lianfen, Xiaobin Yang, Catherine
Yeh, Yu Sheng- kuan, Kyoim Yun, Enhua Zhang, Zhang Longxi, Zhang Wan-
min, Yingjin Zhang, Xueping Zhong, Yawen Zhou, Yu Zhou, and Zhou Zhiq-
iang for their generous support.
I am deeply indebted to the many librarians at the following libraries,
archives, and museums whose support and expertise have been crucial along
the way: University of Kentucky libraries, University of Michigan libraries,
Harvard- Yenching Library, Beijing Normal University libraries, Beijing Uni-
versity libraries, National Library of China, China Film Archive, National
Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, Chongqing Library, Hong Kong Film
Archive, Shanghai Library, Shanghai Municipal Archive, Diplomatic Archives
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Tokyo University libraries (especially
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acknowledgments ix
the Library at the Institute of Oriental Culture), the Oriental Library in Tokyo,
the National Film Center in Tokyo, the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
at Waseda University, the Yoshino Sakuzō Memorial Museum in Furukawa,
National University of Singapore libraries, Stockholm University libraries, the
Joris Ivens Archive in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Stanford University librar-
ies, Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and the Library at the Sinological
Institute at Leiden University.
This book has benefited greatly from the feedback, critiques, and encour-
agement I have received after sharing my work in progress with many groups
and individuals, some of which include members of the Sanjū nendai kenkyu-
kai and Fujii zemi at Tokyo University, the University of Michigan’s Center
for Chinese Studies, Michigan China Fellows, members of the 2010 National
Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar at Stanford University, mem-
bers of the University of Kentucky Asian Studies Faculty Workshop, University
of Kentucky Social Theory working papers series, University of Kentucky Gen-
der and Women’s Studies Research Matters series, University of Kentucky Rus-
sian and Eastern Studies working papers series, the Crane House, Berea Col-
lege East Asian Studies lecture series, the Graduate Institute of National Policy
and Public Affairs at National Chung Hsing University, the Graduate Institute
of Anthropology at National Chi-N an University, the Department of Taiwan-
ese Literature at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, the Hall Center
for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, the Division of Humanities of
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Pants Theatre Production
(Hong Kong), and the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chi-
nese University of Hong Kong.
I thank the following institutions for their invaluable support: the Depart-
ment of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University;
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Harvard-Y enching
Institute, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Asia Center and Fairbank
Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University; the Center for Chinese
Studies and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of
Michigan; the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, College of Arts
and Sciences, Office of the Vice President for Research, Center for the Enhance-
ment of Learning and Teaching, and the Hive at the University of Kentucky;
the Tian Han Foundation in Beijing; the European Foundation Joris Ivens in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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