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The emphasis on cultural connectivity in China’s growing presence and involvement in Southeast Asia highlights the importance China places on people-to-people exchanges as part of its global engagement strategy. The remarkable ascension of China over the recent decades has precipitated a proliferation of anti-China sentiments, particularly galvanized within the crucible of a “discourse war” with Western powers, as expressed in the latter’s “China threat” narrative. In response to such challenges, China has made substantial investments in cultural diplomacy, to augment its soft power through orchestrated global outreach initiatives. This article examines Chinese cultural diplomacy in the realm of entertainment, specifically “The Melody of Spring: Transnational Spring Festival Gala” hosted in Nanning, Guangxi, and disseminated globally each Chinese New Year. Against the legacy of China-Indonesia bilateral relations as well as Indonesia’s treatment of its Chinese minority, this study explores China’s cultural diplomacy and soft power in contemporary Indonesia. Through the case study of the “Transnational Spring Festival Gala”, this article posits that China’s cultural dissemination as an instrument of soft power has yielded little influence on the Indonesian public and has limited impact on the formation of a transnational imagined community.

Variety shows (Television programs) --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy.

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circus --- variété --- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) --- Cabarets --- Café theater --- Concert gardens --- Concert rooms --- Concert saloons --- Variety shows (Theater) --- Variety-theaters --- Theaters --- Vaudeville --- History --- circus. --- variété.

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In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"-named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona-Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1904 with the New York City premiere of the show My Lady-and never looked back. Tanguay was, at the height of a long career that stretched until the early 1930's, a trend-setting performer who embodied the emerging ideal of the bold and sexual female entertainer. Whether suggestively singing songs with titles like "It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It" and "Go As Far As You Like" or wearing a daring dress made of pennies, she was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, from Mae West to Madonna and Lady Gaga, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality. In Queen of Vaudeville, Andrew L. Erdman tells Eva Tanguay's remarkable life story with verve. Born into the family of a country doctor in rural Quebec and raised in a New England mill town, Tanguay found a home on the vaudeville stage. Erdman follows the course of her life as she amasses fame and wealth, marries (and divorces) twice, engages in affairs closely followed in the press, declares herself a Christian Scientist, becomes one of the first celebrities to get plastic surgery, loses her fortune following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and receives her last notice, an obituary in Variety. The arc of Tanguay's career follows the history of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Tanguay's appeal, so dependent on her physical presence and personal charisma, did not come across in the new media of radio and motion pictures. With nineteen rare or previously unpublished images, Queen of Vaudeville is a dynamic portrait of a dazzling and unjustly forgotten show business star.

Vaudeville --- Femmes artistes du spectacle --- Women entertainers --- Variety shows (Theater) --- Variety-theaters --- Amusements --- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) --- Entertainers, Women --- Entertainers --- Histoire --- History --- Tanguay, Eva,

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Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American culture

Women jazz musicians in motion pictures. --- Big bands in motion pictures. --- Jazz in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Television broadcasting of music. --- Variety shows (Television programs) --- History

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Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) --- Cabarets --- Café theater --- Concert gardens --- Concert rooms --- Concert saloons --- Variety shows (Theater) --- Variety-theaters --- Theaters --- Vaudeville --- History --- Moulin-Rouge (Night club : Paris, France) --- History.