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Xi’an Qinqiang and the Creative Destruction

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This chapter examines the process of rural marketisation and the initial urban CCI launch in the early 2000s; it sets the scene of China’s intimate rural-urban relation and questions if destruction of xiqu as the community way of life is the unavoidable process of Chinese CCI.

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    All translation from Jia’s Qinqiang are completed by the author.

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Ma, H. (2024). Xi’an Qinqiang and the Creative Destruction. In: Understanding CCI through Chinese Theatre. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45874-3_2

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