"Non UBC"@en . "DSpace"@en . "University of British Columbia. School of Music"@en . "University of British Columbia. Hong Kong Studies Initiative"@en . "University of British Columbia. Centre for Chinese Research"@en . "University of British Columbia. Department of Asian Studies"@en . "University of British Columbia. Department of History"@en . "University of British Columbia. Department of Theatre and Film"@en . "St. John's College (Vancouver, B.C.)"@en . "Yung, Bell"@en . "2017-10-13T20:44:17Z"@en . "2017-09-22"@en . "To most ethnomusicologists, music is a social activity with the main goal of interacting with an audience. China\u00E2\u0080\u0099s qin music, often associated with the literati who play primarily for themselves as a private activity, is an exception. While qin ideology stresses extra-musical meaning and cultural significance, it is also an expressive art. In this talk I will argue that, in playing privately, the player turns inwardly toward himself rather than outwardly toward an audience. In such a performance context, music and musicality need to be assessed by criteria different from those commonly accepted for public music."@en . "https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/63286?expand=metadata"@en . ""@en . "China"@en . "10.14288/1.0357047"@en . "eng"@en . "Unreviewed"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"@* . "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"@* . "Faculty"@en . "An Audience of One : The Private Music of the Chinese Literati"@en . "Moving Image"@en . "http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63286"@en .