This book will examine the recent development of school music education in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to illustrate how national policies for music in the school curriculum integrate music cultures and non-musical values in the relationship between national cultural identity and globalization. It will examine the ways in which policies for national identity formation and globalization interact to complement and contradict each other in the content of music education in these three Chinese territories. Meanwhile, tensions posed by the complex relationship between cultural diversity and political change have also led to a crisis of national identity in these three localities. The research methods of this book involve an analysis of official approved music textbooks, a survey questionnaire distributed to students attending music education programmes as well as primary and secondary school music teachers, and in-depth interviews with student teachers and schoolteachers in the three territories.

Wai-Chung Ho is a professor in the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her two most recent books are Popular Music, Cultural Politics and Music Education in China (2017) and Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China (2018).

Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
Chapter Three The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
Chapter Four Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
Chapter Five Music Teachers' Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
Chapter Six Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
Chapter Seven Recapitulation and Conclusion
Closing Words
Index