Seventeenth Book in the NTU & HYI Academic Book Series published

The Harvard-Yenching Institute is pleased to announce that the seventeenth book in the NTU & HYI Academic Book Series has been published. The monograph, entitled 節慶景觀：緬華樂舞的多點域流變與文化新生 (Festivalscapes: The Evolution and Cultural Renewal of Sino-Burmese Multi-sited Music and Dance), is by Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu 呂心純. The book was published in November 2025 by National Taiwan University Press. Additional information about the publication is available in Chinese and in English.

About the book: This book explores the fluidity of the Sino-Burmese identity construction through music and dance within the interplay of globalization and localization. It focuses on festival performances in Yangon’s Chinatown, Zhonghe’s Burma Street, and Macau’s Little Burma, alongside global communities (diaspora and Generation Z). Through an interdisciplinary lens, it traces the historical evolution of Sino-Burmese music and dance from World War II to the globalized era, analyzing how Sino-Burmese communities inside and outside of Burma reshape subjectivity amidst cultural governance, ethnic politics, and transnational networks. The book examines the identity tensions between the nostalgic generation and Gen Z, highlighting how their music and dance practices navigate ethnic politics, performative strategies, identity dilemmas, and neoliberal markets, fostering processes of tradition reinvention and cultural revitalization. It reveals music and dance as mediums for emotional attunement and collective memory reconstruction through the demonstration of the agency within a Sino-Burmese polycentric cultural framework.

本書探討緬甸華人樂舞文化在全球化與在地化交織下的流動與認同建構，聚焦仰光唐人街、中和緬甸街、澳門小緬甸的節慶展演與全球社群（同僑、Z世代）的聲景實踐。透過跨學科視角，追溯二戰至全球化時期緬華樂舞的歷史演變，分析各地緬華社群如何在文化治理、族裔政治與跨國網絡中重塑主體性。書中梳理緬華懷舊世代與Z世代的認同矛盾，以及其樂舞生產在各地族群政治、文化展演機制、認同困境與新自由主義市場的交織下，傳統再造及文化復振的多重文化協商過程。同時，亦揭示在這過程中，樂舞作為情感調和與集體記憶再造的媒介，如何展現緬華社群在多中心文化結構中的能動性。

About the NTU & HYI Academic Series: The book series, published by National Taiwan University Press, is a collaboration between the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the College of Liberal Arts of National Taiwan University. The Series publishes scholarly monographs in Chinese which make a major original contribution to the humanities and social sciences. Interdisciplinary studies are especially welcome. Submissions are encouraged from all Chinese-speaking regions and beyond. For more information about the NTU-HYI series, please visit the NTU Press website.