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Towards a relational model of tradition : Chi­neseness beyond diaspora in the lion dance in Santiago, Chile
ID Bulicic Auspont, Tamara (Author)

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Abstract
This article examines how Chinese lion dance is learned, embodied, and authenticat­ed in Santiago, Chile, where it is practiced entirely by non-Chinese performers outside frameworks of ethnic inheritance or diasporic continuity. Drawing on ethnographic field­work, I explore how tradition emerges through embodied apprenticeship, transnational affiliations, and affective kinships that reconfigure Chineseness as a negotiated, proces­sual phenomenon. Situated within Latin America’s histories of race, nation-building, and imported Orientalism, the Chilean case reveals how Chineseness is constructed through the embodied and sonic acts that locally materialize a culturally recognizable “Chinese” world. By centring Latin America as both site and analytical vantage point, this article contributes to broader discussions in Chinese performance studies and Asian humanities from the South, challenging paradigms that tether authenticity to diasporic continuity. Ultimately, this study invites reconsideration of where the boundaries of ethnic perfor­mance lie, underscoring how lion dance in Santiago becomes a site where Chineseness is affectively inhabited, socially recognized, and collaboratively reimagined beyond dias­poric or essentialist frames.

Language:English
Keywords:Chinese performance, lion dance, Chineseness, tradition, Latin America
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2026
Number of pages:Str. 359-386
Numbering:Vol. 14, no. 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-190564 This link opens in a new window
ISSN on article:2232-5131
DOI:10.4312/as.2026.14.2.359-386 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:05.11.2026
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Title:Asian studies = Azijske študije
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Language:Slovenian
Title:K relacijskemu modelu tradicije : kitajska identiteta onkraj diaspore v levjem plesu v Santiagu v Čilu
Abstract:
Ta članek preučuje, kako se kitajski levji ples v Santiagu v Čilu uči, uteleša in potrjuje kot avtentičen, čeprav ga v celoti izvajajo nekitajski nastopajoči zunaj okvirov etničnega izročila ali diasporne kontinuitete. Avtorica na podlagi etnografskega terenskega dela raziskuje, kako se tradicija oblikuje skozi utelešeno vajeništvo, transnacionalne povezave in afektivne sorodstvene vezi, ki preoblikujejo kitajskost kot dogovorjeni, procesni pojav. Čilski primer, umeščen v latinskoameriške zgodovine rase, gradnje naroda in uvoženega orientalizma, razkriva, kako se kitajskost konstruira skozi utelešena ter zvočna dejanja, ki materializirajo kulturno prepoznaven »kitajski« svet na lokalni ravni. S tem ko Latinsko Ameriko postavi hkrati kot prizorišče in analitično izhodišče, članek prispeva k širšim razpravam v študijah kitajske performativnosti ter azijskih humanističnih vedah global­nega juga, s čimer izpodbija paradigme, ki avtentičnost povezujejo z diasporno kontinu­iteto. Navsezadnje študija spodbuja k ponovnemu razmisleku o tem, kje potekajo meje etničnega uprizarjanja, in poudarja, kako levji ples v Santiagu postaja prostor, v katerem se kitajskost afektivno uteleša, družbeno priznava in sodelovalno na novo zamišlja onkraj diaspornih ali esencialističnih okvirov.

Keywords:kitajske scenske umetnosti, levji ples, kitajskost, tradicija, Latinska Amerika

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