"Intimate Internationalism and ‘Race’:The Performing Arts Ensemble of the Hungarian People’s Army Visits China in the Autumn of 1956" by Prof. József Böröcz
This is a project in microhistorical macrosociology. I aim to explore the theoretical implications of a detailed reconstruction of a single extended event. My purpose is to throw light on the interplay among such ideas as art, performance, power, politics, progress, (inter)nationalism, aesthetics, ethics, intimacy, “Europeanness,” class, gender and “race” in the context of global cultural diplomacy.