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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/japonifying-qin-music-and-legi
 timization-tokugawa-politics/
SUMMARY:Japonifying the Qin: Music and Legitimization in Tokugawa Politics
DESCRIPTION:\n	Yang Yuanzheng (Associate Professor of Music\, the Universit
 y of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20)\n	Chair/discussant: Shig
 ehisa Kuriyama (Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History\, Depar
 tment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n\n	
 Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n\n	No ma
 tter how idiosyncratically Chinese the qin undoubtedly is\, it flourished 
 in Japan from the seventeenth through the nineteen centuries. A new style 
 consisting of performing ancient Japanese Imperial court music gagaku on t
 he qin emerged from behind the facade of a musical restoration. Why was th
 ere such a drastic change? My presentation will build connections between 
 the intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan and music antiquarianism. In pa
 rticular\, the ideological forces behind the so-called restoration of the 
 Chinese qin launched by the Tokugawa military government are explored thro
 ugh dilemmas of political legitimacy. The Shōgun’s Edo-centred dictator
 ship was by definition eternally subordinate to the Emperor in Kyoto\, so 
 a means had to be found to articulate an alternative legitimacy\, and Conf
 ucianism proved the perfect vehicle. The qin as a musical invention of anc
 ient antiquity and a route to sagehood was a suitable means to this end.
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