Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations

Nicholas de Villiers; Yongan Wu

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Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations

Nicholas de Villiers
, Yongan Wu

University of North Florida

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Abstract

Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year-old "house-wife" from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	789–812
Journal	Positions: Asia Critique
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3666039
State	Published - Nov 1 2016

Disciplines

Political History
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Performance Studies
Sociology

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