Once an indispensable part of the self-education for all highbrow intellectuals in China, the ancient art of seven-stringed guqin playing has long been confined into a musical skill or hobby only ...

The guqin, or qin, is a seven-stringed, classical musical instrument that is a relative of the zither family, and has a history in China of about 5,000 years. Scholars and sages considered the qin as ...

Gao Chong and Wang Peng (right) perform at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on September 19, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Juntian Fang Guqin becalms, says Wang Peng. The music plunges the ...

A renewed appreciation of the seven-stringed zither is as much about understanding ancient Chinese culture as it is enjoying the music When civil servant Jackel Wan Chak-kui, 28, first heard a guqin ...

A guqin concert is a key highlight of this year's Shanghai Spring Music Festival that will be held later in the month. A stringed instrument of the zither family, guqin is one of China's oldest, and ...

The history of the guqin dates back as far as 3,000 years ago. However, more young people are now bringing this ancient musical instrument back to the fore. Jacob Charles is a Mexican-American ...

White-collar workers learn playing the guqin (Chinese zither) at You Huang Li guqin salon. Nowadays, more and more white collars in pursuit of a slow life show great interest in traditional Chinese ...

Made by veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing-hon over 10 years, MUSIC BEYOND SOUND tells the story of an unlikely guqin master. In 1974, John Thompson, an American, went to Taiwan, then Hong Kong, to ...

COULD dancers do more than just move to music, but use their bodies and movement to make the music instead? An experiment with Singapore composer Joyce Beetuan Koh, RAW Moves artistic director Ricky ...

When civil servant Jackel Wan Chak-kui, 28, first heard a guqin being played, he was a young boy wandering through Chi Lin Nunnery, in Diamond Hill. He remembers being entranced by the instrument’s ...