Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1988.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. [254]-262.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. A.)--Guo li shi fan da xue, 1977. / Cover title. Reproduced from typescript; on double leaves. Bibliography: p. 196-202.

MA, Translation, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 1993

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 2007. / Adviser: Linda N. Maram. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2004.

My dissertation explores the transmission of musical knowledge between China, Portugal, and France in the context of a global Enlightenment. Through the lenses of two treatises authored by Jesuit missionaries serving at the Chinese Imperial Court––one introducing Western music to China, the other introducing Chinese music to France––I investigate how music and the system of knowledge represented by each treatise challenged their audience's worldview: although their interpretation differed, both the Europeans and the Chinese acknowledged China as the origin of the Western civilization. I argue that this construction of a universal history that accommodates all cultures on a single timeline shows there was a common effort across the globe to systematize the diversity of the world's musical cultures into one coherent principle and, more importantly, that the Enlightenment did not originate in Europe but was built on a shared effort of the East and the West to use history to make sense of the expanding globe. My research offers a new model for musicological studies by situating music at the intersection between East Asian Studies, Mission Studies, History of Science, and Global History. Moreover, it challenges the preconceived notion of the Enlightenment as a purely European phenomenon and argues instead that the Enlightenment was global at its inception. In doing so, it moves beyond the framework of dissemination and the comparative approach that characterize much of the past scholarship on global history. Emphasizing simultaneous emergence over successive development and integration over connection, I examine how local societies actively incorporated foreign systems of knowledge in the face of globalizing forces and how this incorporation not only expanded but also transformed their conception of the world.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 236 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 June 20.