{"id":11471,"date":"2019-02-25T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:46:53","slug":"bu-anthropology-presents-resistance-of-the-weak-the-invention-of-dragon-dance-performance-fri-march-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2019\/02\/25\/bu-anthropology-presents-resistance-of-the-weak-the-invention-of-dragon-dance-performance-fri-march-1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance of the Weak: The Invention of Dragon Dance Performance (Fri. March 1, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>The Boston University Anthropology Graduate Lunch Seminar series presents<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Resistance of the Weak: The Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">by <b>Professor Chuanfei Tu,<\/b><span>\u00a0<\/span>School of Sports, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Folk sports culture in China includes the story of a dragon dance, invented in a village in southern China in the urbaniza<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/asian\/files\/2019\/02\/Dragon-dance2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"294\" class=\"wp-image-11472 alignleft\" \/>tion wave. The invention of this dance demonstrates the villagers\u2019 attempt to protect their own legal interests and resist the negative impact of urbanization through political resistance against the forces of developers and local government. When the threat of demolition and relocation of the village was alleviated, the dragon dance remained as an open and collective activity to protect the interests of villagers, while it has hidden meanings reflecting survival ethics and \u201csimple folk wisdom.\u201d Based on this ethnographic case, the paper reflects on James Scott\u2019s theory of &#8220;weapons of the weak&#8221; believing that the theory underestimates the degree of the organization of resistance from the weak while exaggerates its degree of harm and over-simplifies its form of expression.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>Professor Tu studies sports culture in religion and ritual, based in the anthropology of sport and sport history. He published the monograph \u201cRural Sports Culture Change: The Inspiration of the Change of Dragon Dance in a Chinese Village\u201d (Beijing Sports University Press, 2011) among many other publications.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Note: Please contact Professor Merry White (corky@bu.edu) by 5 pm Feb. 26 if lunch is desired.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University Anthropology Graduate Lunch Seminar series presents Resistance of the Weak: The Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization by Professor Chuanfei Tu,\u00a0School of Sports, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics Folk sports culture in China includes the story of a dragon dance, invented in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7614,7617],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11475,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}