The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization.

Ya-Hui Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Florida.