Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music by Richard Curt Kraus

Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music

Richard Curt Kraus

308 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chron...

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