
Hwee-San TanGoldsmiths University of London · Department of Music
Hwee-San Tan
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Ethnomusicology, Music in China, Music and Ritual in Chinese Buddhism, Music and Chinese diaspora
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Music and meaning in the folk Buddhist ritual for the dead.
Buddhism in China has a long history, dating back to around the first century of the Common Era. For over two millennia this foreign religion from India via Central Asia has laid down roots in its adopted land, and continuously evolved to develop into a uniquely Chinese Mahayana Buddhism that has infiltrated a wide spectrum of Chinese society up to...
NANCY GUY: Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan. xvii, 230 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. $35. 0 252 02973 9. - - Volume 70 Issue 1 - Hwee-San Tan
A review of a CD release by Lyrichord of John Levy's recording of Chinese Buddhist ceremonies in the 1960s, with notes by Laurence Picken.
In China, a commemorative ritual for the dead, known in Minnan (southern Fujian) as Gongde, may be performed by Buddhist, Daoist or lay ritual specialists. Commercialism and syncretism with popular beliefs over time have long since led institutional Buddhists to frown upon its performance by their own members. Since the 1980s, the government‐mandat...
This article surveys over three hundred scholarly works that examine music and Buddhism, published in twelve different languages. As ethnographic and historical research broadens our knowledge of Buddhist musical cultures, inquiries into specific research topics bring both Buddhism and Buddhist music into sharper focus, particularly when pursued fr...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, 2003.
BLDSC reference no.: DX229090. Thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 2003.