Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Ancient Heritage
2. Han Literati and the Qin
3. Common-Practice Instruments in Historic Perspective
4. Sizhu Instruments
5. Chuida Instruments
Postscript: Twentieth-Century Developments
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Alan R. Thrasher, Ph.D. (1980) in Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University, is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of British Columbia.