Yu Hui is a Chinese musicologist with interests in Chinese music history, traditional music theory, guqin zither, and opera traditions. He is the first musicologist to receive the title of Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education and is currently a Donglu Distinguished Professor at Yunnan University and a Chair Professor at Xiamen University.Jonathan P.J. Stock is a British ethnomusicologist specializing in music in China and Taiwan. He is Professor of Music at University College Cork with interests in research ethics, ethnography, indigeneity, music education, music analysis, and the diverse global histories of ethnomusicology.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Contributors 1. Introduction: Frames of Reference for the Study of Music in China and Its DiasporaYu Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock PART I NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORY AND THEORY2. Musical Archaeology and the Prehistory of Chinese MusicYang Yuanzheng 3. Theorizing "Natural Sound": Ancient Chinese Music Theory and Its Contemporary Applications in the Study of Guqin IntonationYu Hui and Chen Yingshi 4. The Huxuan and Huteng Dances: Foreign Musical Dances in Chinese HistoryZhao Weiping 5. Kunqu from Analytical Perspectives: A Focus on Feng Ru SongKar Lun Alan Lau 6. Why and How do Chinese Sing Shijing Songs?Joseph S.C. Lam 7. Music History and Historiography in the Chinese ContextHon-Lun Helan Yang 8. Chinese Music ModernitiesFrederick Lau PART II MUSIC GENRES AND PRACTICES IN EVOLVING CONTEXTS 9. Traditional Instruments and Heterophonic PracticeAlan R. Thrasher 10. Jiangnan Sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area: Context, Repertoire, and SustainabilityMercedes M. Dujunco 11. Social Change and the Maintenance of Music Tradition Among the Western YugursDu Yaxiong 12. The Making of a Musical Community as a Manifestation of Nationalism: The Jinyu Qinshe Society in 1930s ChinaYu Hui 13. A Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Approach to Luo Yusheng's Video Performance of "At Break Of Day"Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson 14. The Emergence of Taiwanese New Xiqu: A Case Study on Chichiao Musical TheaterHsieh Hsiao-Mei 15. Hybridity in the Modern Chinese Orchestral Music (Guoyue) of TaiwanChing-Yi Chen 16. Trends in the Globalization of Pipa MusicBen Wu PART III Cross-Cutting Issues in Contemporary Settings 17. Humanism in Red: A New Mainstream Narrative in the Pop Songs of 1980s' ChinaLijuan Qian 18. Staging Race and Sexuality Across Borders: Marketing Pop Singer Coco LeeGrace Wang 19. Re-Imagining China's Female Pianists: Yuja Wang and Zhu Xiao-MeiShzr Ee Tan 20. Liveness and Mediation in Chinese Art Music: From The Map to The Qingming FestivalGermán Gil-Curiel 21. The Professional and Amateur in Wuhan's Park PopSamuel Horlor 22. Minorities and the Mainstream: The Musical Place of the Non-Han Peoples in Modern ChinaChuen-Fung Wong 23. "Kita Anak Malaysia" [We are the Children of Malaysia]: Performing Multicultural Chinese IdentitiesTan Sooi Beng 24. Conclusions: New Directions in Chinese Music ResearchJonathan P.J. Stock Index

Yu Hui is a Chinese musicologist with interests in Chinese music history, traditional music theory, guqin zither, and opera traditions. He is the first musicologist to receive the title of Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education and is currently a Donglu Distinguished Professor at Yunnan University and a Chair Professor at Xiamen University.Jonathan P.J. Stock is a British ethnomusicologist specializing in music in China and Taiwan. He is Professor of Music at University College Cork with interests in research ethics, ethnography, indigeneity, music education, music analysis, and the diverse global histories of ethnomusicology.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Contributors 1. Introduction: Frames of Reference for the Study of Music in China and Its DiasporaYu Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock PART I NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORY AND THEORY2. Musical Archaeology and the Prehistory of Chinese MusicYang Yuanzheng 3. Theorizing "Natural Sound": Ancient Chinese Music Theory and Its Contemporary Applications in the Study of Guqin IntonationYu Hui and Chen Yingshi 4. The Huxuan and Huteng Dances: Foreign Musical Dances in Chinese HistoryZhao Weiping 5. Kunqu from Analytical Perspectives: A Focus on Feng Ru SongKar Lun Alan Lau 6. Why and How do Chinese Sing Shijing Songs?Joseph S.C. Lam 7. Music History and Historiography in the Chinese ContextHon-Lun Helan Yang 8. Chinese Music ModernitiesFrederick Lau PART II MUSIC GENRES AND PRACTICES IN EVOLVING CONTEXTS 9. Traditional Instruments and Heterophonic PracticeAlan R. Thrasher 10. Jiangnan Sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area: Context, Repertoire, and SustainabilityMercedes M. Dujunco 11. Social Change and the Maintenance of Music Tradition Among the Western YugursDu Yaxiong 12. The Making of a Musical Community as a Manifestation of Nationalism: The Jinyu Qinshe Society in 1930s ChinaYu Hui 13. A Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Approach to Luo Yusheng's Video Performance of "At Break Of Day"Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson 14. The Emergence of Taiwanese New Xiqu: A Case Study on Chichiao Musical TheaterHsieh Hsiao-Mei 15. Hybridity in the Modern Chinese Orchestral Music (Guoyue) of TaiwanChing-Yi Chen 16. Trends in the Globalization of Pipa MusicBen Wu PART III Cross-Cutting Issues in Contemporary Settings 17. Humanism in Red: A New Mainstream Narrative in the Pop Songs of 1980s' ChinaLijuan Qian 18. Staging Race and Sexuality Across Borders: Marketing Pop Singer Coco LeeGrace Wang 19. Re-Imagining China's Female Pianists: Yuja Wang and Zhu Xiao-MeiShzr Ee Tan 20. Liveness and Mediation in Chinese Art Music: From The Map to The Qingming FestivalGermán Gil-Curiel 21. The Professional and Amateur in Wuhan's Park PopSamuel Horlor 22. Minorities and the Mainstream: The Musical Place of the Non-Han Peoples in Modern ChinaChuen-Fung Wong 23. "Kita Anak Malaysia" [We are the Children of Malaysia]: Performing Multicultural Chinese IdentitiesTan Sooi Beng 24. Conclusions: New Directions in Chinese Music ResearchJonathan P.J. Stock Index

Yu Hui is a Chinese musicologist with interests in Chinese music history, traditional music theory, guqin zither, and opera traditions. He is the first musicologist to receive the title of Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education and is currently a Donglu Distinguished Professor at Yunnan University and a Chair Professor at Xiamen University.Jonathan P.J. Stock is a British ethnomusicologist specializing in music in China and Taiwan. He is Professor of Music at University College Cork with interests in research ethics, ethnography, indigeneity, music education, music analysis, and the diverse global histories of ethnomusicology.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Contributors 1. Introduction: Frames of Reference for the Study of Music in China and Its DiasporaYu Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock PART I NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORY AND THEORY2. Musical Archaeology and the Prehistory of Chinese MusicYang Yuanzheng 3. Theorizing "Natural Sound": Ancient Chinese Music Theory and Its Contemporary Applications in the Study of Guqin IntonationYu Hui and Chen Yingshi 4. The Huxuan and Huteng Dances: Foreign Musical Dances in Chinese HistoryZhao Weiping 5. Kunqu from Analytical Perspectives: A Focus on Feng Ru SongKar Lun Alan Lau 6. Why and How do Chinese Sing Shijing Songs?Joseph S.C. Lam 7. Music History and Historiography in the Chinese ContextHon-Lun Helan Yang 8. Chinese Music ModernitiesFrederick Lau PART II MUSIC GENRES AND PRACTICES IN EVOLVING CONTEXTS 9. Traditional Instruments and Heterophonic PracticeAlan R. Thrasher 10. Jiangnan Sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area: Context, Repertoire, and SustainabilityMercedes M. Dujunco 11. Social Change and the Maintenance of Music Tradition Among the Western YugursDu Yaxiong 12. The Making of a Musical Community as a Manifestation of Nationalism: The Jinyu Qinshe Society in 1930s ChinaYu Hui 13. A Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Approach to Luo Yusheng's Video Performance of "At Break Of Day"Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson 14. The Emergence of Taiwanese New Xiqu: A Case Study on Chichiao Musical TheaterHsieh Hsiao-Mei 15. Hybridity in the Modern Chinese Orchestral Music (Guoyue) of TaiwanChing-Yi Chen 16. Trends in the Globalization of Pipa MusicBen Wu PART III Cross-Cutting Issues in Contemporary Settings 17. Humanism in Red: A New Mainstream Narrative in the Pop Songs of 1980s' ChinaLijuan Qian 18. Staging Race and Sexuality Across Borders: Marketing Pop Singer Coco LeeGrace Wang 19. Re-Imagining China's Female Pianists: Yuja Wang and Zhu Xiao-MeiShzr Ee Tan 20. Liveness and Mediation in Chinese Art Music: From The Map to The Qingming FestivalGermán Gil-Curiel 21. The Professional and Amateur in Wuhan's Park PopSamuel Horlor 22. Minorities and the Mainstream: The Musical Place of the Non-Han Peoples in Modern ChinaChuen-Fung Wong 23. "Kita Anak Malaysia" [We are the Children of Malaysia]: Performing Multicultural Chinese IdentitiesTan Sooi Beng 24. Conclusions: New Directions in Chinese Music ResearchJonathan P.J. Stock Index