front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Lives in Chinese Music -- PART 1. REGIONAL FOCUS: THE YANGTZE RIVER DELTA -- 1. Zhao Yongming: Portrait of a Mountain Song Cicada -- 2. Shao Binsun and Huju Traditional Opera in Shanghai -- PART II. THE LITERATI -- 3. Tsar Teh-yun at Age 100: A Life of Qin Music, Poetry, and Calligraphy -- 4. Gathering a Nation's Music: A Life of Yang Yinliu -- PART III. MUSIC ON THE CULTURAL FRONTIERS -- 5. Grace Liu and Cantonese Opera in England: Becoming Chinese Overseas -- 6. Abdulla Majnun: Muqam Expert -- 7. Compliance, Autonomy, and Resistance of a "State Artist": The Case of Chinese-Mongolian Musician Teng Ge'er -- Contributors -- Index -- back cover.