INFO PROGRAM SPECIAL EDITION
Dance in Herland 她乡舞曲
18.5 × 25.7 cm
334 p
Chinese, English
Offset printing, exposed binding, dust jacket
ISBN 979-8-9890170-3-4
First published in 2025
Author: Luka Yuanyuan Yang
Editor-in-Chief: Kechun Qin
Project Manager: Michael Guo
Assistant Editor: Jierui Ou
Contributors: Selia Jinhua Tan, S.Louisa Wei, Xin Wang
Designer: Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey
Distribution: Public Knowledge Book
USD$50
*若地址在中国地区，请用中文填写
Dance in Herland surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. The book brings together hundreds of archival materials from photo albums, rare and invaluable oral histories, creative writings, and interviews with scholars. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting 20th-century San Francisco and Cuba, tracing history through the neons of Chinatown and the echoes of Cantonese opera. For the dancers and performers documented in this book, their bodies act as living archives; their memories and unspoken emotions may be concealed in their steps, fingertips, and gazes.
Additionally, the design duo Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey transformed the books into a vessel of collective memory through their design. They used papers in various colors to separate different oral history backgrounds. The designers delicately captured visual elements marked by the era from the archive, infusing the book with new charm grounded in the aesthetics of the last century.
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Each copy is accompanied by a 7’’ Vinyl.
7’’ Vinyl
18.5 × 18.5 cm
Edition of 200
Designer: Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey
USD$85
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Closing theme of Chinatown Cha-Cha
Side A: Love Again
Written by Xi Chen
Performed by Reonda, Xichen, Keju Luo, Celeste
Produced by Keju Luo, Xi Chen
Side B: Love Again (Reonda’s Version)
Written by Xi Chen
Performed by Reonda