Casey Schoenberger completed a PhD in Chinese literature at Yale University in 2013. His research focuses on cognitive, comparative, digital, musicological, and linguistic approaches to East Asian literature and performing arts. He served for five years as Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he taught beginning and advanced courses for undergraduate and graduate students in English and in Mandarin. He is currently a lecturer in Rice University's Department of Transnational Asian Studies, where he teaches courses on East Asian literature and performing arts in a global context.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chinese Dynastic Periods Note on Conventions Introduction: Creative Cycles of the Extended Mind 1: The Death of Rhythm 2: The Birth of Melody 3: Languages without Native Speakers 4: Music without Composers Coda: Lively Rhythms of Equal Lines, Ever-Present Past Glossary and Abbreviations Works Cited Index

Casey Schoenberger completed a PhD in Chinese literature at Yale University in 2013. His research focuses on cognitive, comparative, digital, musicological, and linguistic approaches to East Asian literature and performing arts. He served for five years as Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he taught beginning and advanced courses for undergraduate and graduate students in English and in Mandarin. He is currently a lecturer in Rice University's Department of Transnational Asian Studies, where he teaches courses on East Asian literature and performing arts in a global context.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chinese Dynastic Periods Note on Conventions Introduction: Creative Cycles of the Extended Mind 1: The Death of Rhythm 2: The Birth of Melody 3: Languages without Native Speakers 4: Music without Composers Coda: Lively Rhythms of Equal Lines, Ever-Present Past Glossary and Abbreviations Works Cited Index