Contents: Contents +++ Preface (Bernhard Hanneken & Tiago de Oliveira Pinto) +++ Helen Rees: Traditional Performing Arts in China Today: Cultural Policy and Practice +++ Barbara Mitt ler: Of Pride and Prejudice. Rethinking Music and Power in China +++ Alexander Rehding: From 茉莉花 to Moo-Lee-Chwa. History of a Musical Transfer ca. 1796 +++ Omid Bürgin: Representations of Guqin in China Today: From Recurrent Nostalgia, Cultural Etiquette to Revival Movements +++ Frederick Lau: Celestial Music, Glamorous Angels: Girls Glitzing up Traditional Chinese Music +++ Frank KouwenhovenCan Chinese Music Swing? +++ NING Er: Soft Knife. China’s Folk Singer/Songwriters in the Last Decade +++ TANG Lijiang: Chinese Shadow Play. Improvisation and Collaboration +++ Johannes Sturm: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Genre: Li Jinhui’s Children Operas in the Context of Time +++ Yongfei DU: Yangge: A Genre of Chinese Folk Dance +++ Chuen-Fung WONG: Intercultural Encounters, Global Circulations, and the “Original Ecology” Style of Uyghur Music in the Late Twentieth Century and Beyond +++ CHUNG Shefong: Who Is Singing Over Here? China as Ancestors’ Home and as a Foreign Land +++ The Authors +++ Content of CD +++ Index