Conferences - HKU Department of Music

Constructing China's Nationhood
Music and Transmission in East Asia

Organized by the Department of Music, School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong

23–25 April 2010
Convocation Room, 2/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

Programme

23 April 2010

09:00	Registration
09:30	Welcoming Address: Daniel Chua, Head of the School of Humanities
	Session 1 (Chair: Michael McClellan, Discussant: Alan Thrasher)
09:45	Robert Bagley (Princeton University) Bells and the Origin of the Chromatic Scale
10:45	Discussion
10:55	Coffee Break
	Session 2 (Chair: Joseph Lam, Discussant: Yu Siu-wah)
11:30	Gong Hong-yu (Unitec New Zealand) To Sing for the Nation: Japan, School Songs and the Forging of a New National Citizenry in Late Qing China, 1891-1911
12:00	Lee Watkins (The University of Hong Kong) Musical Agency and Filipino Musicians in the Port Cities of the Chinese Coastline
12:30	Discussion
12:45	Lunch
	Session 3 (Chair: Tsai Tsan Huang, Discussant: Yu Siu-wah)
14:30	Alan Thrasher (University of British Columbia) Qupai: The Heart of Chinese Music
15:30	Discussion
15:40	Coffee Break
	Session 4 (Chair: Alan Thrasher, Discussant: Joseph Lam)
16:10	Yu Siu-wah (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Who the Barbarians Are: Changing Identity of Non-Han Chinese Music in Qing Sources
16:40	Yang Yuanzheng (The University of Hong Kong) Qin Music and Legitimization in Tokugawa Politics
17:10	Discussion

24 April 2010

	Session 5 (Chair: Joshua Chan, Discussant: Li Siu-leung)
09:30	Joseph Lam (University of Michigan) Kunqu: A Musical Discourse of 21st Century and Globalized Desires and Identities
10:30	Discussion
10:45	Coffee Break
	Session 6 (Chair: Alan Thrasher, Discussant: Christopher Pak)
11:10	John Winzenburg (Hong Kong Baptist University) Almost Chinese: Recalling Aaron Avshalomov’s 'New Direction' for China's Musical Tradition
11:40	Afton Clarke-Sather (University of Colorado, Boulder) Landscape and Nation in the Yellow River Piano Concerto: Towards a Structurationist Position on National Culture in International Classical Music
12:10	Monia Grauso (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Liu Sola and Her New Chinese Jazz Music
12:40	Discussion
12:50	Lunch
	Session 7 (Chair: Mak Su-yin, Discussant: Alan Thrasher)
14:30	Robert Provine (University of Maryland) Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings
15:30	Discussion
15:40	Coffee Break
	Session 8 (Chair: Mak Su-yin, Discussant: Joseph Lam)
16:10	Howard Goodman (Asian Major) The Empire of the Rites
16:40	Richard Widdess (SOAS, University of London) Musical Instruments of Power in South Asia
17:10	Discussion
19:30	A performance of the 12th-century Chinese poet-musician Jiang Kui's music by Cheung Lai-chun, Ho Kang-ming, Lau Chor-wah, and Sou Si-tai (Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery)

25 April 2010

	Session 9 (Chair: Chan Hing-yan, Discussant: Gong Hong-yu)
09:30	Paolo Sabbatini (Italian Culture Institute) Matteo Ricci and the Introduction of Italian Music in China During the Ming Dynasty
10:00	Garry Pang (Shaanxi Normal University) Monumenti Sinici: A Remarkable Chinese Hymn
10:30	Discussion
10:40	Coffee Break
	Session 10 (Chair: Yu Siu-wah, Discussant: Chan Hing-yan)
11:10	Tse Chun-yan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Pentatonism in Qin Music and the Rule of Manchus
11:40	Ng Kwok-wai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) From Orality to Literacy and Back to Orality: The Adoption and Adaptation of Chinese Tang Music in Japan
12:10	Discussion
12:20	Closing Discussion: Joseph Lam, Alan Thrasher, and Yu Siu-wah

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