Preface to the Catalogue of the New Sounds of a Flourishing World 《盛世新聲目錄》序

An extract from 'Preface to the Catalogue of the New Sounds of a Flourishing World 《盛世新聲目錄》序'. Launched on 1 October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819953).