Chiayi Seetoo
Performance-studies scholar whose 2016 IJOC article 'China's Guangchang Wu' is the foundational English-language academic study of guangchangwu.
About
Chiayi Seetoo lectures at Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA) in the MA program of Intercultural Communication Studies. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her 2016 article in the International Journal of Communication, 'China's Guangchang Wu: The Emergence, Choreography, and Management of Dancing in Public Squares,' is widely cited as the foundational English-language scholarly treatment of guangchangwu, analyzing the practice through spatial practice, scale, gender politics, and the interplay between grassroots organizing and state management and support.
Stored as a Person node so the site's scholarship coverage and the guangchangwu entity can point to a named researcher rather than an anonymous citation.
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- Seetoo, Chiayi
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Sources
- China's Guangchang Wu: The Emergence, Choreography, and Management of Dancing in Public SquaresInternational Journal of Communication2016-12-01