A critical history of new music in China - Liu, Jingzhi, 1935-; Mason, Caroline, 1949- (Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 2010)
Introduction: New music in China and its theoretical foundations -- The origins of new music (1885-1919): the westernisation of military music and the birth of schoolsong -- New music in the May fourth period (1919-1937) -- The mass singing movement and musical creation in the anti-Japanese war period (1937-1945) -- New music education and creation during the Civil War (1946-1949) and in the seventeen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949-1966) -- Yangbanxi and the music of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1979): revolutionary modern Peking opera, ballet, symphonic music and songs -- Musical creation after the Cultural Revolution and New Wave music -- New music and composers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao -- Review and reflection: historical review (1885-1985) and the Sinicisation and modernisation of new music -- New development (1996-2006): mainland China, overseas, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [791]-878) and indexes.
Text in English translated from Chinese.
Keywords: Music -- China -- 20th Century -- History and criticism; Musicians -- China -- History