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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wang, Yiwen

Titel

Homoeroticising Archaic Wind Music: A Rhizomatic Return to Ancient China

Ist Teil von

• China perspectives, 2020-01, Vol.2020 (2 (121)), p.15-23

Ort / Verlag

Hong Kong: Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article explores Archaic Wind music (gufeng 古風) and its implications for Sinophone articulations. Gufeng can be categorised as a particular type of music with lyrical, musical, and symbolic references to ancient China that is produced, consumed, and circulated within an online fan community. While the lyrics of gufeng music express a post-loyalist yearning to return to the fictional roots of “Cultural China,” its video adaptations deconstruct the authenticity of such cultural roots in their homoerotic subtext. Exploring the audio-visual texts of the gufeng music, I suggest that it shows a rhizomatic return to ancient China that disorients the routes to the past.