Encounters

<DIV>Addressing the themes of: music and history; tradition versus innovation; cultural diversity/intercultural creativity; and music and the related arts; this book  focuses on encounters between China and Australia from the earliest imaginings and representations to the latest cultural exchanges. Here the reader will find of stories of forbidden love prejudice and deceit of gestures of harmony and the fulfilment of dreams and wishes. Ethnomusicologists composers performers historians and cultural theorists alike explore the past present and future of a long complex and culturally rich interaction. Their writings so varied and diverse celebrate a multiplicity of identities and present a challenging array of research avenues and perspectives through which to view the Australian-Chinese connection.</div>