Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology

Faculty

Job title：Associate Professor

Name：Joys H. Y. Cheung

E-mail：jhcheung@ntnu.edu.tw

Phone：+886-2-77495447

Discipline： Introduction to philosophy of music, Study of the Comparison between Chinese and Western Music, Theory and Practice of Ethnomusicology, Music and Modernity of East Asia, Art Song across Cultures, Seminar on Ethnic Instruments, Introduction to Music Sources, Qin Music for Life, Chinese Music History

Expertise： Chinese musical modernity, focusing on the tranformation and negotiation processes between tradition and modernity during the interwar period. Topics include translated modernity of the emerging field of “music” Shanghai, the sublime aesthetic, the listening practice of the qin, art song, Datong Music Society, and Chinese musical instruments and the making of “heritage.”

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Papers
Symposium Papers
Books
Projects
Others

year	Paper name
2025	“Datong Music Society (1919-1958) and the making of “heritage” in early Chinese music modernity: New discoveries and comparative reflections on its “early music revival” in the 1920s and 1930s.” Invited lecture, “East Asia Future” colloquium series, Faculty/Institute of East Asian Studies, Ruhr Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen Online, January 24, 2025
2024	“The Discovery of Datong Musical Instruments in Germany and their Inspirations: Making Objects between the Past and Present, and Possibilities between Heritage and Utopia.” Delivered in Chinese. Inivited lecture, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Shanghai, CHINA, November 7, 2024
2024	“The Discovery of the Datong Instruments Gift Set at the Deutsches Museum: Outlining Turning Points.” Delivered in Chinese. Paper presented at “Datong Music Society Centennial Exhibit and Academic Forum,” Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan, October 29, 2024
2023	Making Chinese Instrumental Relics in Pre-UNESCO Modernity Datong Music Society’s “Heritage” Project, Journal of Music Research, 39 (2023): 1-54
2021	‘Yuesheng Shengnian 樂生聲年 / Those Days @ THE Confucius Temple’, “Yearbook for Traditional Music 2021”, Vol. 53, International Council for Traditional Music, (2021/12): 195-199. (A&HCI)
2015	"Riding the Wind with Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony: The Kantian and Daoist Sublimes in Chinese Musical Modernity" Music & Letters, 96.4 (2015): 534-563
2015	Ear-Pleasing or Not: Listening to Qin Music in Shanghai during the Interwar Period", Journal of Music Research, 23 (2015): 73-115
2014	Response to Ananya Kabir, ‘Oceans, Cities, Islands: Site and Routes of Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures。Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, (2014): 125-127
2012	"Divide and Connections in Chinese Musical Modernity: Cases of Musical Networks Emerging in Colonial Shanghai, 1919-1937", Twentieth Century China 37.1 (2012): 30-49
2010	Singing Ancient Piety and Modernity in “Song of Familial Bliss” (1935): Musical Translation of Huang Zi (1904-1938) in Interwar China," Asian Music 41.1 (2010): 4-58

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2024	“Locating the Elusive Folk/Populaire in Modern Chinese Art Song Culture, 1920s-1930s.” Invited and referred symposium paper, The Promotion of Chinese Culture and Arts, 1930-1950, around the Geneva Bibliotheque Sino-Internationale, Geneva University of Music (HEM) Geneva, SWITZERLAND, April 13, 2024
2024	“Against the ‘Economy of Means’: the Forgotten Art Songs of Mrs. S. M. Woo (Hu Zhou Shu’an胡周淑安, 1894-1974) and their Challenges.” Invited conference paper, 20th Century Global Art Song Congress, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg Freiburg, GERMANY, March 14, 2024
2022	‘Composition, Commentary and Collegiality in the Translated Modernity of Early Chinese Art Song’, “7th Symposium of the Study Group on Musics of East Asia”, Online, 2022/05
2019	The ‘Play’ of the Chinese Qin Practice。Musicology or Ethnomusicology? Discussing Disciplinary Boundaries in Non-Western Art Music，英國。2019/03/22
2018	‘The “Play” of the Chinese Qin Practice and Ethnomusicological Theory’, “Annual Meeting of the Joint Taiwan Musicology Society and Taiwan Musicology Forum”, Taiwan, 2018/11
2017	Art Songs in China。20th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Tokyo 2017，日本東京。(2017/03/19-2017/03/23)
2017	Art songs in China。Symposium: The Art Song and Musical Modernity in East Asia and Australia in the First Half of the 20th Century，日本京都。2017/03/26
2017	Ancient Piety in a Chinese Art Song: Musical Translation and Filmic Use of a Work by Huang Zi。Symposium: The Art Song and Musical Modernity in East Asia and Australia in the First Half of the 20th Century，日本京都。(2017/03/26-2017/03/26)。
2015	Pleasing the Ears Not: Music and Guqin Listening of Interwar Shanghai.。Invited paper at the First Youth Forum on Hong Kong Guqin Studies，香港。(2015/06/05-2015/06/06)
2014	'Ride the Wind' with Mozart’s 'Jupiter' Symphony: Kantian Sublime and Daoist Sublime in Chinese Musical Modernity。At China Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar，香港。(2014/04/15)
2014	The Musical Sublime of Chinese Modernity: New Aesthetic Choices and Huang Zi’s Musical Sounds (1930s).。Conference of the Study Group for Musics of East Asia (MEA), International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)，日本奈良。(2014/08/01)。
2014	Building the Chinese Musical World from the Colonial Shanghai Archive.。At Laon Laon Workshop & Conference on Preserving and Cataloguing Music Cultural Heritage in Asia，菲律賓。(2014/10/14-2014/10/16)。
2014	Building the Chinese Musical World from the Colonial Shanghai Archive。Colloquium，香港。(2014/11/25-2014/11/25)
2013	China Needs Lofty and Grand Music: The Sublime in Chinese Musical Modernity.。At Music Colloquium, Department of Music，香港。(2013/03/01)
2013	“Making Chinese Film Music in Colonial Shanghai (1930s): Unprecedented Sounds and Networks in Modernity.。World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM),，Shanghei。
2012	Making Sounds of Harmony: ‘Silk and Bamboo’ Music and Chinese Modernity Politics in Shanghai.。At Confucius Institute, University of Michigan，美國。(2012/02/01-2012/02/02)
2012	Contending Harmony: ‘Silk and Bamboo’ Music and Chinese Modernity in Interwar Shanghai.。At School of Music and Center for，美國。(2012/02/01)
2012	Traditional East Asian Musics in Transcultural Colonial Settings.。ICTMMEA Symposium，香港。(2012/08/01)
2012	“Peking Opera Music and Chinese Modernity in Colonial Shanghai: Some Preliminary Observations.。Conference of the Study Group for Musics of East Asia (MEA), International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)，香港。(2012/08/01)。
2012	Western Musics and their Local Interactions in Colonial and Semicolonial East Asia.。ICTM-MEA Symposium，香港。(2012/09/01)

year	Book name
2023	Co-edited with Alison Tokita, The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950. New York and London: Routledge, ISBN: 9781032321622. (2023-3)
2023	Composition, commentary and collegiality in the translated modernity of early Chinese art song. The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950. New York and London: Routledge, ISBN: 9781032321622. (2023-3)
2023	Art song as lyrical modernity in colonial and postcolonial contexts: listening to each other’s songs. The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950. New York and London: Routledge, ISBN: 9781032321622. (2023-3). Co-edited with Alison Tokita
2019	Confucianism. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. USA: SAGE Publications, Inc.. ISBN: 9781483317755. (2019-5)
2019	Translation. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. USA: SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781483317755. (2019-5)
2017	Music. Encyclopedia of Chinese history. New York and London: Routledge, ISBN: 9780415426992. (2017-2)
2010	Reading Chinese Music and Beyond(1). Hong Kong: Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong. ISBN: 9789624423297. (2010/01)

Class	year	Project name	Participant	Job	During	Agency
Project	2024	Music Building and Chinese Modernity in Republican China (4)—Sino-German Musical Exchange, Archaistic Instruments, and ‘Early Music Revival’ Cross-Cultural Reflections	Principal Investigator	2024/08/01 ~ 2025/07/31	Grant from National Science and Technology Council
Project	2022	Music Building and Chinese Modernity in Republican China (3)—Chinese Instrumental Culture, Heritage Invention, and Diplomatic Cosmopolitanism during the Interwar Period and Beyond	Principal Investigator	2022/08/01 ~ 2024/07/31	Grant from National Science and Technology Council
Project	2020	Music Building and Chinese Modernity in Republican China (2)—Art Song, Cosmopolitanism, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of the Early Twentieth Century	Principal Investigator	2020/08/01 ~ 2022/07/31	Ministry of Science and Technology
Project	2018	Music Building and Chinese Modernity in Republican China (1) - Music, Virtues, and Competition in Shanghai, 1918-1937 (MOST 107-2410-H-003-105-MY2)	Principal Investigator	2018/08/01 ~ 2020/07/31	Ministry of Science and Technology
Project	2017	Music, Virtues, and Competition: Building Chinese Musical Modernity in Shanghai, 1918-1937	Principal Investigator	2017/08/01 ~ 2018/07/31	New Faculty Grant for Research, National Taiwan Normal University
Project	2017	Music Media and Cross- Regional Collaborative Project on ‘The Art Song and Musical Modernity in East Asia and Australia’: Planning Phase I	Principal Investigator	2017/05/01 ~ 2017/12/31	the Aim for the Top University Project, National Taiwan Normal University
Project	2015	Building Music and Virtues for Modern China: Chinese Musical Modernity Emerging from Shanghai, 1918-1937	Principal Investigator	2015/01/01 ~ 2016/07/31	Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Project	2014	Listening to the Rare Sounds: Guqin Practice and History from Hong Kong to Antiquity	Principal Investigator	2014/05/01 ~ 2016/04/30	Chinese University of Hong Kong

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