This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on
Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The …

During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that"
people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments …

This article challenges three common assumptions about Chinese socialist-era dance
culture: first, that Mao-era dance rarely circulated internationally and was disconnected from …

The right of Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack to be identified as the authors
of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in …

The title of this special issue borrows from Vannevar Bush's book Science: The Endless
Frontier (1945), an influential treatise on the role of science in national welfare that paved …

Calling for “peaceful coexistence” in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev put an end to the Soviet
Union's longtime isolation. His turn in foreign policy did not go unnoticed in the famous …

This chapter analyzes two forms of secondary school competitions in science as parallel
models of Cold War internationalism from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The International …

During the first decade of the Cold War, the communist-sponsored World Festivals of Youth
and Students included a program of international sports events that provided elite athletes …

This chapter employs a mobility-focused approach to examine the changes in Italian left-
wing intellectuals' collective response to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in different …

One of the most significant mass manifestations of the state-subsidised cultural expres-sions
of the Socialist Bloc in the second half of the 20th century was “Red Woodstock”, the World …