Dance in Herland 她乡舞曲 | te editions

Dance in Herland surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. The book brings together hundreds of archival materials from photo albums, rare and invaluable oral histories, creative writings, and interviews with scholars. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting 20th-century San Francisco and Cuba, tracing history through the neons of Chinatown and the echoes of Cantonese opera. For the dancers and performers documented in this book, their bodies act as living archives; their memories and unspoken emotions may be concealed in their steps, fingertips, and gazes.

Additionally, the design duo Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey transformed the books into a vessel of collective memory through their design. They used papers in various colors to separate different oral history backgrounds. The designers delicately captured visual elements marked by the era from the archive, infusing the book with new charm grounded in the aesthetics of the last century.

18.5 × 25.7 cm
334 p
Chinese, English
Offset Printing, Exposed Binding, Dust Jacket
ISBN 979-8-9890170-3-4
First Published in 2025

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《她乡舞曲》（Dance in Herland）源自艺术家杨圆圆的长片作品《女人世界》及五部聚焦于华人离散社群的短片，不仅是电影落幕后的回顾与补充，也开启了一条崭新的叙事路径。

书中搜罗了数百项档案资料，包括影像、口述历史、创作书写，以及与学者的访谈。经历近一年时间的整理和编辑，宛若重现了20世纪的旧金山与古巴，透过唐人街的霓虹灯与粤剧的余音追寻历史轨迹。

本书主要分为两个章节，第一章〈女人世界〉通过六位舞者对昔日唐人街的口述缓缓拉开历史帷幕，跨时空感受由盛转衰的夜总会；也特邀艺术史学家兼策展人王辛探讨了华裔舞者在表演中如何应对被西方世界塑造的「东方主义」印象，以及如何重新理解离散华人群体。

第二章〈造乡〉包含一篇关于唐人街剧院鬼故事的虚构写作，以几段传奇故事。也通过美国和古巴华裔们的口述，回溯粤剧戏台在彼时如何牵连华裔与故土之间的关系，另收录两篇个体视角的离散故事以及学者谭金花的访谈。

《她乡舞曲》的书籍设计，则由何翩翩与麦石设计工作室担纲，他们细致地从档案中捕捉属于该时代的视觉元素，并运用多种色纸区分不同的口述历史背景，使书籍根植于上个世纪美学的同时，亦散发出崭新的魅力。

开本：18.5 × 25.7 cm
页数：334
语言：中文、英文
年分：2025
出版：te editions