When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern
dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan
Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural
history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective
through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers
and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu
Rongling, Wu Xiaobang, Dai Ailian, and Guo Mingda-and their
connections to canonical Western counterparts, including Isadora
Duncan, Mary Wigman, Rudolf von Laban, and Alwin Nikolais. Tracing
these Chinese pioneers' varied experiences in Paris, Tokyo,
Trinidad, London, New York, and China's metropolises and
borderlands, the book shows how their contributions adapted and
reimagined the legacies of early Euro-American modern dance. In
doing so, When Words are Inadequate reinserts China into the
multi-centered, transnational network of artistic exchange that
fostered the global rise of modern dance, further complicating the
binary conceptions of center and periphery and East and West. By
exploring the relationships between performance and representation,
choreography and politics, and nation-building and global
modernism, it situates modern dance within an intermedial circuit
of literary and artistic forms, demonstrating how modern dance
provided a kinesthetic alternative and complement to other sibling
arts in participating in China's successive revolutions, reforms,
wars, and political movements.
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