Contents
Preface - Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle
Music, China, and the West: A Musical-Theoretical Introduction - Hon-Lun Yang
Part 1: Chinese-Western Historical Encounters and Musical Exchanges
The Pipe Organ of the Baroque Era in China - David Francis Urrows
From Colonial Modernity to Global Identity: The Shanghai Municipal Orchestra - Hon-Lun Yang
Calafati, Sou-Chong, Lang Lang, and Li Wei: Two Hundred Years of “the Chinese” in Austrian Music, Drama, and Film - Cornelia Szabó-Knotik
Part 2: “Staged” Encounters and Theatrical Representations of Chineseness
Eastern Fantasies on Western Stages: Chinese-Themed Operettas and Musical Comedies in Turn-of-the-Last-Century London and New York - Michael Saffle
The Many Lives of Flower Drum Song (1957–2002): Negotiating Chinese American Identity in Print, on Stage, and on Screen - James Deaville
Deterritorializing Spirituality: Intercultural Encounters in Iron Road - Mary Ingraham
Part 3: Chinese-Western Musical Encounters and Intercultural Compositions
Chinese Opera Percussion from Model Opera to Tan Dun - Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Spanning the Timbral Divide: Insiders, Outsiders, and Novelty in Chinese-Western Fusion Concertos - John Winzenburg
Combinations of the Familiar and the Strange: Aspects of Asian-Dutch Encounters in Recent Music History - Emile Wennekes
Part 4: Ideological Encounters and the Reception of Chinese Music and Ensembles in the West
The Shanghai Quartet’s Chinasong: A Musical Counterpart to English-Language Cultural Revolution Memoirs? - Eric Hung
Contested Imaginaries of Collective Harmony: The Poetics and Politics of “Silk Road” Nostalgia in China and the West - Harm Langenkamp
When a Great Nation Emerges: Chinese Music in the World - Frederick Lau
A Postscript - Michael Saffle
Bibliography
Contributors
Index