Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines recent reforms and innovations in school music education within the changing societies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. These three regions share a common historical culture but have had diverse socio-political experiences. Whilst some musical knowledge is common to all three, some is particular to one or two and depends on their responses to globalization, localization and national identity. This book aims to compare how music education in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei has adjusted to the forces of globalization, localization and Sinofication. It contributes significantly to thinking about education reforms in response to this tripartite paradigm with respect to not only Chinese communities but also to the Asia-Pacific Region as a whole.
Trade Review"Ho’s work is relevant because of the embedded connotations it reveals when reading her work form a geopolitical perspective anno 2020. It is to be recommended for use in the classroom and serves as an appropriate literature survey documenting debates and core insights that are of importance in understanding the history of education in East Asia." – Ann Heylen, National Taiwan Normal University, in International Journal of Taiwan Studies 3 (2020), p. 363-382.
