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Dancing Sino-African Solidarities in the 1960s (📍🇦🇺)
🇨🇳 Dancing Sino-African Solidarities in the 1960s (Sydney 🇦🇺)
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
🕒 Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM AEST
📍 Location: Michael Spence Building Auditorium (2) 105, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW
🌐 Organizer: China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Languages: English
Registration & Info: Free – no registration link required
🏷️ Description:
How did African dance performances shape China’s understanding of Africa during the Mao era? In this Sydney China Distinguished Fellow lecture, Professor Emily Wilcox (William & Mary) explores three significant yet under-researched cultural exchange tours from Algeria, Guinea, and Congo in the 1960s. She examines how Chinese audiences received African dancers—framing them through revolutionary and anti-colonial lenses—and how Chinese performers engaged with African dance as an act of solidarity and cultural kinship.
This event is supported by the Sydney China Distinguished Fellowship and hosted by the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
🎓 Topics: Sino-African Relations, Dance History, Socialist China, Cultural Exchange, African Studies