“The scholar-administrators whose emblem . . . [the qin] was long gone . . .” What is the place of this softly played solo music in today’s “fast-paced, energetic China”?

What will be an ideal response?


• "Today quite a few people play the qin. . . [T]his restrained, sensitive and flexible music . . . [requires] listening with increased concentration and cultivating the ‘way of the qin', that is listening with the ear, the heart and the mind and [this] has as much relevance as it did two thousand years ago."

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