Introduction / Joys H. Y. Cheung
Music of qin: from the scholar's study to the concert stage / Bell Yung
Pipa stories as cultural history of Chinese music / Joseph S. C. Lam
The making of a national musical icon: Xian Xinghai and his Yellow river cantata / Hon-Lun Yang
"The north wind blows": sounding bitterness in The white-haired girl, a communist political ritual / Joys H. Y. Cheung
Representing the minority other in Chinese music / Chuen-Fung Wong
Trafficking in Taiwan Aboriginal voices revisited / Nancy Guy.