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  China-related Topics MU-MZ Topic Center - China-Related Topics
Music of Guangxi Chinesemusic Guangxi is a region of China, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Music of Jiangxi Chinesemusic Jiangxi is a southeastern province of China.
Music of Guizhou Chinesemusic Guizhou is a provinces of Chinaprovince of China.
www.famouschinese.com /public/China-Related_Topics_MU-MZ.html   (631 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of Jiangxi
Music of China appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC).
Jiangxi (Chinese: 江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the Peoples Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) in the north into hillier areas in the south.
Jiangxi's opera heritage is also important, having played a major role in the evolution of Beijing opera.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Jiangxi   (1118 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Jiangxi Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jiangxi is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River's lower and middle sections.
Jiangxi (江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī WG: Chiang-hsi) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River's lower and middle sections.
Jiangxi is the birthplace of the Gan language-dialect, one of the Chinese languages.
www.ipedia.com /jiangxi.html   (649 words)

  
 Chinese Music Vol 19 No 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This Chaicha Opera is from Gannan (Southern Jiangxi).
The study of Chinese classical and the creation of 21st century's music is benefitting from computer analysis of numerical characteristics of masterpieces.
Shen Sin-yan remembers the many contributions of Li Guoquan of Beijing and urges the commemoration of the untimely death of another music administrator and conductor He Wuqi of Shanghai.
chinesemusic.net /cm963.htm   (239 words)

  
 Accordion news : The Squeeze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The National Accordion Festival and Competition for Musical College students of Siberia was held from 3rd to 7th March in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Musical Group Klezmos is playing at the Hill Parish Hall, Pikesville, Washington on Saturday 15th March, in a "pre-St Patrick's Day" celebration of music and dance.
The "Senior" orchestra was formed in 1990 from students of the Music Education Centre (West Auckland).
www.accordions.com /index/squ/squ_97_03_14.shtml   (1443 words)

  
 92-autumn
The variety of timbres, dynamics and musical gestures evoked by this soloist went far beyond the typical range of musical devices employed by Western plucked-string instruments, and the expressiveness of some passages evoked qualities of the human voice, with its subtle shadings of vibrato.
As I am a native of Beijing, faced with the task of formulating a musical scheme that would fit the special tonality of Cantonese to the words of the poem, I gratefully relied on the cooperation and assistance of Rao Lan and composer Chen Yi.
Music From China and the Alliance Stage of The Educational Alliance jointly present "Cantonese Opera Stage Movements." A demonstration-performance by Luo Weihua and Zhu Yingying of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Company takes a fascinating look at how performers use their eyes, head, torso, hands, arms, and legs in their acting.
www.musicfromchina.org /newsletter/92-autumn.htm   (4667 words)

  
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It is clear that in rural Jiangxi, the mindset of “boys are superior to girls” is still deeply rooted, despite the greater emphasis of gender equality in the urban cities.
Classes such as physical education, music and art are not taught and students are left running around or required to study other subjects during these class periods.
As discussed earlier, many rural children in Jiangxi only lives with their grandparents who are often illiterate and unaware of the importance of education.
www.duke.edu /apsi/documents/ShianLingKengSum05.doc   (1642 words)

  
 Music of Anhui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Classical music - C-pop (Cantopop, Mandopop) - Heavy metal - Hip hop - Opera - Rock
Anhui is a province of China, known musically for a wide array of folk and classical styles.
The Huangmei opera, though originally from Hubei, has a long history in Anhui, especially Anqing City, from which it spread to Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Anhui   (188 words)

  
 Music of Qinghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The music of Qinghai, a province of China inhabited by Tibetans, Mongolians and others, includes hua'er, a type of song prevalent throughout northwest China.
This informal music is often competitive in nature, with singers interacting and improvising topical and love lyrics, usually unaccompanied.
Qinghai's folk music is known for its intervallic leaps in melody
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Qinghai   (270 words)

  
 21st Century Music in the Old West (Part 1)
Even though Western composers and musicians had for a long time been mixing the two, and even though the practical and theoretical study of the “popular” had made some inroads into established academies, such reform was only tolerated as a minority appendage to the main business of mass producing “classical” piano broilers and jazz soloists.
Interest in the historical music traditions of the European bourgeoisie was even lower than it had been in 2000: by 2025 the only courses to include the likes of Bach, Mozart and Bartók were those dedicated to multimedia composition.
By 2030, music departments and conservatories were virtually emptied of what, thirty years previously, had been the mainstay of their repertoire.
www.tagg.org /articles/c21hist1.html   (1942 words)

  
 Broadway Breaks the Color Line, UCLA International Institute
Huang, who received her opera training from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a graduate of vocal performance from Brooklyn College, won first prize in the 4th National Singing Competition in Budapest.
Huang’s musical career began at the age of fourteen when a music teacher heard her sing and brought her to a music school in Jiangxi.
She originally wanted to be a pop singer but she ultimately fulfilled her subsequent dream of performing in major opera houses across America and Europe.
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=7808   (659 words)

  
 News: Jiangxi Mobile expends rural coverage - Mobile Monday
This is Nokia’s 10th GSM expansion for Jiangxi MCC.
In addition, Jiangxi Mobile has also contracted Nokia to build GSM coverage for the rural areas.
Jiangxi MCC is one of the wholly owned subsidiaries of China Mobile (HK) Limited with a leading market position in Jiangxi province of over 8.5 million subscribers.
www.mobilemonday.net /mm/story.php?story_id=4944   (268 words)

  
 China - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
See also the entries on Chinese architecture, Chinese art, Chinese literature, and Chinese music for aspects of Chinese culture that are not treated in this article.
A Communist government was set up in the early 1930s in Jiangxi, but Chiang's continued military campaigns forced (1934) them on the long march to the northwest, where they settled in Shaanxi.
The Chinese have created numerous musical instruments, such as the zheng, xiao, and erhu, that have spread throughout East and Southeast Asia, and especially areas under its influence.
china.quickseek.com   (11157 words)

  
 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--National Minorities
In the early 1930s, viewpoints such as the formation of a federal state granting a high degree of independence to minorities, or even the possibility of secession, were included in the Constitution of the Jiangxi Soviet.
In the media, national dances, music and songs are woven together in a mixture which implies unity while at the same time emphasizing the individual characteristics of each nationality.
Although it can be said that these elements have saved certain minority practices from extinction, they at the same time have had a stiffling effect on the development of these peoples.
www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/xsmz.html   (1053 words)

  
 Nokia lands network contract with Jiangxi - Breaking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jiangxi MCC is a subsidiary of state-controlled China Mobile, the country's largest mobile phone operator.
Largely rural Jiangxi, which covers about 160,000 square kilometres and has 40 million inhabitants, is one of China's smallest and poorest provinces.
Nokia already has more than 4300 employees, or nearly 10 percent of its global workforce, in China which it has identified as its most important market in coming years.
www.smh.com.au /technology/ - !http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137202491.html?from=moreStories   (169 words)

  
 Ladybug Journals.com --> Family Travel Page
There was an old man dancing to the music, and my mother was absolutely crazy for him - we all were.
He was just the cutest thing, and I can't wait to show you the video of him.
Scott and Evan, you are in my heart every second of every day.
www.adecmusic.com /ladybug/client/abbyh/family_day3.htm   (668 words)

  
 Flu McGREGOR day music -- as powers Hill got the impression (Jiangxi Jiangxi West landscapes 1st Tours)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jiangxi, will be a bridge to the hill careful look down, I had spent 10 years time clear and refreshing autumn weather season this year, I was able to take place in public after Mount powers, see sunshine east.
It is alleged that because of 得名 Wugong powers Hill, Kowloon, and to always got to the cave Road-two from the Wei, Jin Gexuan, wrote in the chain Danzhaoji to five-home disciples come to build Buddhist temple that has been 1,700 years of history.
idyll Broadway western music, the kind of music, kind of simple, the kind of feeling : : I was at the heart of beauty, the best sight of the vault of heaven List, feel free to the warrants.
en.802.cn /travel_notes/0be/25010.html   (1540 words)

  
 Life After Jiangxi :: Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The job is in China, but I was able to ask for an interview in the UK, which is lucky as that's where I happen to be at the moment.
All Chinese primary school teachers are expected on a fundamental level to be grumpy, sour-faced bitches, and the constant scolding during classes doesn't stop the children from running up and giving her a hug as soon as break starts, so that's obviously just the way things are.
Twice a day, everyone sits down in the classroom, this bossy wee biddy comes on the tannoy shouting, "di yi jie: yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba..." and so on, and all the kiddies have to rub their eyes in time to the music.
lifeafterjiangxi.toughblogs.com /blog   (5068 words)

  
 Ladybug Journals.com --> Family Travel Page
Just standing there, singing praise music put this whole journey into perspective.
Some of the group will be getting up at 5:00 am to make an early flight out to their province.
Our province that we are going to, the Jiangxi Province, doesn’t leave until 9:00 in the morning.
www.adecmusic.com /ladybug/client/maya/family_day4.htm   (536 words)

  
 Dolmetsch Online - Music Dictionary Ho - Hz
Honky Tonk music is associated with uprooted rural people, and its lyrics deal chiefly with the social problems associated with their migration.
The music of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and Ernest Tubb is perhaps most representative of the Honky Tonk style.
The huqin in Chinese music is equivalent to the violin.
www.dolmetsch.com /defsh2.htm   (4866 words)

  
 Accordion Weekly News, 14th January 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Quintet members are undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, in Vilnius and they perform both classical and modern compositions including works by Astor Piazzolla and compositions by modern Lithuanian composers.
A demonstration of a new external accordion amplification unit that was developed by one of their members in conjunction with a sound engineer was presented.
A recent show organized by the Teaching Centre at the Taohua Primary School in Nanchang was recorded by the Jiangxi Province Education TV Channel and reported in both Chinese and English.
www.accordions.com /index/squ/en_squ_00_01_14.shtml   (2047 words)

  
 Jiangxi Map, Map of Jiangxi | infohub.com
Here you will find a treasure of information with regard to map of Jiangxi as well as a wealth of information on the subject of Jiangxi maps.
This "maps of Jiangxi" page will be updated frequently, so visit early and visit often.
Jiangxi Map - Map of Jiangxi, Travel Map of Jiangxi China
www.infohub.com /Maps/jiangxi_map_2125.html   (76 words)

  
 Dan Washburn's Shanghai Diaries: Jiangxi Archives
Her hometown is Hengshui, population 4,000, a tiny village in western Jiangxi Province, where the Miao family is one of the lucky ones — they have electricity.
HENGFENG, Jiangxi — According to the Jiangxi Statistical Yearbook and State Statistical Bureau, the southeastern province of Jiangxi — which boasts the largest gold, silver, copper, plutonium, uranium, lead and zinc resources in China — has an average annual household income of RMB 4678, just a tad shy of $600 a year.
Traveling from Hangzhou to northeast Jiangxi’s Hengfeng, a small town of 100,000 or 200,000 — no one seems to know — the great divide that exists in China becomes quite clear.
www.shanghaidiaries.com /archives/jiangxi   (1246 words)

  
 News: Nokia expands GSM in Jiangxi - Mobile Monday
Nokia is expanding the GSM networks and services of Chinese operator Jiangxi Mobile Communications Co. Ltd (Jiangxi MCC).
Deliveries have already begun and the network expansion is expected to be completed during first quarter 2005.
Jiangxi Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd. is one of the wholly owned subsidiaries of China Mobile (HK) Ltd. and has offices in eleven cities and 85 districts in the province
www.mobilemonday.net /mm/story.php?story_id=4057   (271 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - World Report: China Making Effort to Develop Its Western Borders - May 28, 2000
HAN: Chen Jian-Ming recalls that when he arrived in Jiangxi in 1951, the region was mainly wilderness.
They hope that today's young people should bear the hardship of developing the west with the same spirit they had when they were young.
He says that his parents may not see the day when Jiangxi catches up with the east, but he hopes that through his efforts his children will.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0005/28/wr.09.html   (660 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/inthehourblue
Just like the city that created it, the sound is an intense crucible of mixed european and american influences: Black Flag, Wire, The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, 60's psychedelia from both London and San Francisco, Sabbath, Drive Like Jehu, Television...
Their music offers a unique, fatalistic, yet emotionally varied portrait of a cold reality.
In its blend of dissonance and beauty, the atmosphere is one of high drama, with every traces of the melo prefix carefully removed.
www.myspace.com /inthehourblue   (200 words)

  
 Multicultural Family Resources and Shopping Ring
Our website also includes the story of our family's trip to Nanchang, Jiangxi, China in 1996 to adopt our 11 month old identical twin girls and the story of our June 2002 adoption of our 16 month old daughter from S. Korea.
A Memory Book or "life book" that is handcrafted with Chinese Silk Brocade cover and fill in the blank pages with lovely borders and hand colored ancient Chinese graphics design all on acid-free, lignin-free paper with archival quality inks to help you tell you little ones adoption story.
Music for Little People offers Children's Music, Children's Story Tapes, Children's Instruments, Music for Toddlers, Toddlers and Children's Educational and Multicultural Music CD's, Books & Videos, Toys & Gifts.
l.webring.com /hub?ring=multicultring   (956 words)

  
 China Jiangxi News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
a municipal zoo in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province December 13, 2006.
Jiangxi Changhe Suzuki, another Suzuki venture in central China,...
Jiangxi Copper was up 0.07 hkd or 0.85 pct...
www.einnews.com /china/newsfeed-jiangxi   (892 words)

  
 Alan R. Sweeten: Christianity in Rural China, University of Michigan Press
Delving into the archives of the Zongli Yamen--the Qing dynasty bureau that mediated conflicts between foreign missionaries, local Christians, and local communities--Alan Sweeten presents detailed accounts of interactions between Catholics and non-Catholics in the market towns and villages of Jiangxi.
Sweeten pieces together a close view of tensions in the countryside, their eruption into violence, and as often, their peaceful resolution.
Although religious identity did play a role in local conflict during this forty-year period, personal or family disputes, poverty, and general alienation turn out to be equally important factors.
www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=19893   (174 words)

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