Gastvortrag
Dienstag, 25. November 2025, Dienstag, 12:00 Uhr
Senatssaal, Loebensteinstraße 2-4 (3. OG)
Chinese Music Archaeology: Past, Present, and the Future
Assoc. Prof. Wang Xidan (Shanxi University, China)
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Chinese music archaeology begins with Mr. Liu Fu’s (刘复，1891-1934) testing of musical instruments such as Bianzhong (编钟) and Bianqing (编磬) in the Royal Palaces of the Qing Dynasty in the 1930s. About forty years later, the unearthed 125 pieces of musical instruments from the Tomb of Maquis Yi of Zeng (曾侯乙) in Hubei Province accelerated the establishment of this new direction. Nowadays, music archaeology was considered as a branch of ancient Chinese history of music. Its objects are artifacts and sites remain from the ancient China (from the prehistoric times to the Qing Dynasty). It aims at to solve the questions about ancient Chinese music history through approaches like archaeological typology, musical literature research, ethnomusicology (or musical anthropology) and so on. However, with the deep and refine of the research from the different directions of Chinese musicology, especially related to the development of ancient Chinese music history, a new trend was more and more exposed that how to have another look on Chinese music among the global ancient world. This perspective let Chinese scholars to pay more attention on music archaeological achievements outside the country and seek for international cooperation with foreign researchers, scholars and even musicians, not only for rethink and revalue the gain and loss of Chinese ancient music, but also to find near or far relations with other people and cultures in the ancient times.
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