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This course explores Chinese film, music, and theater in post-1949 China. Through discussing scholarly works in history, theater, ethnomusicology, and film studies, students will be exposed to interdisciplinary approach to engaging with film, traditional theater (xiqu), instrumental music, and popular music in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese diasporas. We will examine issues including nationalism, cultural hegemony, modernity, invented tradition, cultural policy, class, and gender. Supplemented by case studies, this course is organized around two overarching questions: how does film and performing arts inform us about the social history of China? How is expressive culture utilized in political agendas in the modern China