Foreword: A Manifesto for Demarginalization / by Emily E. Wilcox ; Authors' Notes ; Introduction -- History: Dancing Through the Vast Land and Beyond. Major Chinese Dynasties ; Ancient Dance and Early Chinese Writing ; Shamanism and Ritual Dance ; Confucianism ; Dance and Empire ; Tang Dynasty Dance ; Poetry ; Beginnings of Chinese Opera ; Foot Binding ; Repression of Folk Dance ; Theater in the Qing Dynasty ; Dance in the Opera ; Seventeenth-century Han Migration to Taiwan ; Setting the Stage: The Late Qing Dynasty to the Twenty-First Century ; Dance Education ; Dance During Political Upheaval: Japanese Invasion, Civil War, and Communism ; Chinese Opera Dance ; Dance Schools ; Folk Dance ; Cultural Revolution and Beyond ; Dance Competitions ; Popular Culture ; Ceremonial and Religious Dances ; Modern Dance -- Dance is The Prism: a Collaborative Journey Through Chinese Dance. Performer-Audience Relationships ; Primacy of Form ; "What's in a Name?" ; West within the East: Classicism and Zhongguogudianwu ; Parsing the Beijing Olympic Ceremonies ; Government Support and the Emergence of Modern Dance ; Images of Identity -- Seven Interviews: Chinese Dance Artists in North America. Lily Cai ; Nai-Ni Chen ; Lorita Leung ; Yunyu Wang ; Yin Mei ; Jin-Wen Yu ; Yu Wei -- Why Chinese Dance? Who Are Chinese People? ; Who Dances in Chinese Culture? ; What Is Behind the Curtain, in the Past and Now? ; What Is Chinese Dance? ; Where and When Do People Dance? ; How Are Chinese Dances Made? ; Why Have We Written a Book on Chinese Dance? -- Next Steps: The Database and the Art of Education.