Half Sound, Half Philosophy: Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art
- Author: Wang, Jing
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Contents
- Acknowledgements List of Illustrations
- Introduction 1. Sound, Resonance, the Philosophy of Qi Ancient Chinese Acoustics The Philosophy of Qi Sound Explained Through Qi-Philosophy
- Conclusion 2. A Brief History of Sound in China's Contemporary Art Conditions and Precursors New Media Art After 2000 Sound Art after 2000 3. A Brief History of Electronic and Experimental Music in China The Electronic Instrument Builders Academic Electro
- Conclusion 4. Shanshui-Thought in Experimental Music Practice Shanshui-Thought: An Overview Shanshui: The Existential and the Epistemological Making Shanshui-Thought Audible: Two Aesthetic Qualities
- Conclusion 5. In Praise of Strange Sounds of the Shamanistic The Minor Tradition in Ancient Chinese Culture: Shamanism and Chimei Wangliang Acoustic Cultural Heritage and Nationalism Huanghu and Its Two Aesthetic Operations of Resonance and Withdrawal
- Conclusion 6. Ubiquitous Control: From Cosmic Bell, Loudspeakers to Immanent Humming Zhang Peili and Anti-monumentality of Sound Zhang Ding and the Military-entertainment-art Complex Liu Chuang and the (Im)Possibility of Not Being Governed
- Conclusion Qi-Thinking, or Cybernetics: A way of Going On
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography
- Index