moas.atlantia.sca.org https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks en-us China History Forum https://www.facebook.com/chinahistoryforum/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:22:15 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=15300 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=15300 Chinese Pipa, a four-stringed lute: A brief history of the pipa, a traditional Chinese music instrument http://www.philmultic.com/pipa.html Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:30:52 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=8224 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=8224 John Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither Pronounced "chin" (stringed instrument) or "goo chin" (old stringed instrument), the guqin throughout its long history has been the musical instrument most prized by China's literati. They categorized it as one of their "four arts", collected it as an art object, praised its beautiful music, and built around it a complex ideology. No other instrument was so often depicted in paintings, or so regularly mentioned in poetry. Because of the literati's fondness for writing things down, it also has the world's oldest detailed written instrumental music tradition, providing sufficient information to allow both historically informed performance (requiring use of silk strings) of the many early melodies, and practical exploration of the relationship between Chinese music theory and music practice. http://www.silkqin.com Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=8222 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=8222 Country Studies: China Published by the Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998, offering a comprehensive description and analysis of the historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy. http://countrystudies.us/china/ Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:14:46 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=8149 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=8149 Introduction to the History of Technology http://www.sjsu.edu/people/patricia.backer/history/introduction.htm Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:36:42 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=8024 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=8024