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Music and Masculinities in Late Ming China
- Asian Music
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2011
- pp. 112-134
- 10.1353/amu.2011.0022
- Article
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This examination of music and masculinities in late Ming China (1572–1644), a turbulent time in Chinese history, consists of two parts. The first part introduces late Ming China, its masculine ideals and practices, and proposes a heuristic framework for analyzing available data; the second part employs the framework to analyze a selection of representative late Ming texts and visuals that illustrate music and masculinity negotiations of the time.