《她鄉舞曲》（Dance in Herland）源自藝術家楊圓圓的長片作品《女人世界》及五部聚焦於華人離散社群的短片，不僅是電影落幕後的回顧與補充，也開啟了一條嶄新的敘事路徑。
書中蒐羅了數百項檔案資料，包括影像、口述歷史、創作書寫，以及與學者的訪談。經歷近一年時間的整理和編輯，宛若重現了20世紀的舊金山與古巴，透過唐人街的霓虹燈與粵劇的餘音追尋歷史軌跡。
本書主要分為兩個章節，第一章〈女人世界〉通過六位舞者對昔日唐人街的口述緩緩拉開歷史帷幕，跨時空感受由盛轉衰的夜總會；也特邀藝術史學家兼策展人王辛探討了華裔舞者在表演中如何應對被西方世界塑造的「東方主義」印象，以及如何重新理解離散華人群體。
第二章〈造鄉〉包含一篇關於唐人街劇院鬼故事的虛構寫作，以幾段傳奇故事。也通過美國和古巴華裔們的口述，回溯粵劇戲臺在彼時如何牽連華裔與故土之間的關係，另收錄兩篇個體視角的離散故事以及學者譚金花的訪談。
《她鄉舞曲》的書籍設計，則由何翩翩與麥石設計工作室擔綱，他們細緻地從檔案中捕捉屬於該時代的視覺元素，並運用多種色紙區分不同的口述歷史背景，使書籍根植於上個世紀美學的同時，亦散發出嶄新的魅力。
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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