TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrari,Rossella
TI  - Performance and postsocialism in postmillennial China
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the political,
SN  - 9781009515900 (ebook)
AV  - PN2874 .F47 2024
U1  - 792.0951 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Theater
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Politics and culture
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2025); Open Access
N2  - This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. Focusing on independent practitioners and postdramatic practices, it builds on theorisations of postsocialism as a state of temporal disjunction to propose a tripartite taxonomy structured around past, present, and future temporal regimes. The categories of postsocialist hauntologies, postsocialist realisms, and postsocialist futurities are introduced to investigate performance works that respectively revisit the socialist past, document present realities, and envision future imaginations. The intersection of competing temporalities and their performative manifestations reflects the disjunctive constitution of contemporary China, where past socialist legacies and futurological ambitions coexist within a fractured postsocialist present
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009515900
ER  -