Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 by Thomas Irvine

Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839

New Material Histories of Music

Thomas Irvine

256 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

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Through these stories, Irvine not only investigates how the Sino-Western encounter sounded, but also traces the West's shifting response to China. As the trading relationships between China and the West broke down, travelers and music theorists a...

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