Author Question: How does the concept of yin and yang apply to the study of Chinese music? What will be an ideal ... (Read 98 times)

fagboi · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

How does the concept of yin and yang apply to the study of Chinese music?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The Chinese cultural world incorporates a distinctive cross-section of peoples in ___________ . What does diasporic mean?

What will be an ideal response?

canderson530 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Yin and yang--literally the female and male principles-- is the idea from Daoism that any entity comprises not only a principal object but, at the same time, its complementary opposite. The concept of complementary opposites applies in a similar manner to the study of the present music of China along with its musical past, i. e., the new is a reaction to the old.

Answer to Question 2

mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, and diasporic groups elsewhere all around the globe
Diasporic refers to the dispersal or scattering of a people to areas outside of their original homeland.