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Review of Thomas Irvine. 2021. Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
Samuel Cheney
ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 12 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.12-10 pp: 109-114 2023-12-13
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Global music history, Sino-Western, Enlightenment, Soundscape, Thomas Irvine
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Cheney, S. (2023). Review of Thomas Irvine. 2021. Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL, 12 , 109-114. doi:10.30819/aemr.12-10
@article{Cheney_2023,
doi = {10.30819/aemr.12-10},
url = {https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.12-10},
year = 2023,
publisher = {Logos Verlag Berlin},
volume = {12},
pages = {109-114},
author = {Samuel Cheney},
title = {Review of Thomas Irvine. 2021. Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)},
journal = {ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL}
}
Abstract
This essay reviews Thomas Irvine’s 2021 book “Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839”. The author highlights the central tenets of Irvine’s work (published by the University of Chicago Press), and considers its implications for histories of Sino-Western cultural exchange more broadly.