Creative Arts in Education and Culture

1. Issues of Cultural Transmission and Transformation

   1. The Indigenous Culture of Chaozhou Xianshi Music and Diaspora Musicians in Hong Kong

      • Annie On Nei Mok

      Pages 243-251

This book offers insights into the exciting dynamics permeating creative arts education in the Greater China region, focusing on the challenges of forging a future that would not reject, but be enriched by its Confucian and colonial past. Today’s ‘Greater China’ – comprising China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan – has grown into a vibrant and rapidly transforming region characterized by rich historical legacies, enormous dynamism and exciting cultural metamorphosis. Concomitant with the economic rise of China and widespread calls for more ‘creative’ and ‘liberal’ education, the educational and cultural sectors in the region have witnessed significant reforms in recent years. Other factors that will influence the future of arts education are the emergence of a ‘new’ awareness of Chinese cultural values and the uniqueness of being Chinese.​

• Amateur Music Club of Chaozhou Xianshi Music
• China, Hong Kong, Macao, Tawain arts education
• Chinese culture and education
• Confucian education
• Creative arts education in China
• Creative arts in Hong Kong
• Education in Greater China
• Greater China colonial education
• Hakka Folk Song
• Hong Kong composers
• Liberal arts education in China
• Music education in China
• Visual culture through the Chines liqi
• Xibe music culture in Northwest China school ed

“This volume is much more than an introduction to another culture; one gains an understanding of an emerging educational system in music and visual arts through the eyes of teachers. … Each chapter has sufficient depth that the novice reader can understand the policies and pressures which have an impact on curricula in each country.” (Richard Colwell, British Journal of Music Education (BJME), Vol. 32 (3), November, 2015)

“This book offers, a range of topics related to music, complete and well researched information for teachers, students and anyone interested in music. … There is a clarity of thought and ideas throughout all the chapters in this book, and they certainly afford well researched, first-hand information to anyone wanting to know about traditional and contemporary music in Greater China.” (Sujatha Gomathinayagam, He Kupu, Vol. 3 (4), 2014)

• Dept. of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR

  Samuel Leong

• Dept. of Culture and Creative Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR

  Bo Wah Leung

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