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Baban
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Traditional chinese melodic form with eight main melodic phrases; most traditional solo zheng pieces are in this form.
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Beijing opera/peking opera
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Best known type of chinese opera; features heightened speech, song, dance, mime, acting, and acrobatics; the heavily socialism-laden "revolutionary operas" of the 60s and 70s represented a radical transformation of the genre during that period.
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Confucianism
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The sociopolitical doctrine and philosophy originating with the writings of confuscius, which stressed rigid social hierarchy, civic responsibility and a particular conception of morally virtuous social order; basis of chinese society for many centuries from Han dynasty on; top of social hierarchy was junzi class who played the qin. similar to doctrine of ethos.
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Communist era
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1949-65; rule by Mao Zedong; establishment of zheng programs in most major conservatories; significant western influences on zheng music and playing styles such as 2 handed plucking-more virtuosic.
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Cultural revolution
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1966-76; final period of Mao Zedong's leadership of China; unprecedented levels of intolerance for any deviation from communist state idology; extreme restrictions on cultural and artistic expression-no zheng or opera.
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Dap
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Traditional Uighur fram drum; drum head made of donkey hide or snake skin.
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Deng Haiqiong
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Leading zheng player
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Deng Xiaoping
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Leader of china during the period of openness; tried to reconcile free enterprise with communism and loosened constraints on culture
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Erhu
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2 stringed upright fiddle
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Gua-zou
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General term for a wide variety of glissando-type ornaments used in zheng and other chinese instrumental traditions
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Han
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Chinese ethnic majority; 92% of china's population
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Han dynasty
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202-220; confucianism was foundation of social order; zheng was popular and solo zheng tradition developed
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Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
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Leader of Chinese Nationalist party regime that succeeded qing dynasty; focused on modernizing china by developing a new Chinese nationalism rooted in economic, social, and cultural reform (music was key)
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Mao Zedong
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Leader of Chinese communist party; his regime from 1949-65 saw profound reformation of Chinese society and culture; thought music should only serve socialist state
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Ming dynasty
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1386-1644; reemergence of zheng-became standard item in home; rise of middle class
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