Historic Sites Of The Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in Today's Shanghai
Visit former performance venues of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, and former residences of Foa, Paci, Tan Shuzhen, etc.
MUSIC ETHNOGRAPHY
GOLDEN FLOWER RIPPLING WHEAT
This project has been officially collected by the Organizing Committee of the 9th China International Oral History Week and officially exhibited from November 6, 2023 to October 31, 2024 at the Cui Yongyuan Center for Oral History of Communication University of China and on its official website.
TANKA PEOPLE
In this ethnographic study of the "sea nomads" (Danjia) in Hainan, I treat folk songs as biological and cultural "memory codes." Using interdisciplinary methods—blending musicology, oral history, and social observation—I documented a vanishing way of life that exists outside the land-based mainstream. I analyzed how their vocal structures reflect their unique relationship with the sea and the precariousness of their modern survival. My goal was to decode how a community preserves its collective soul when its physical environment and traditional rhythms are threatened by rapid modernization.
