Introduction: New music in China and its theoretical foundations
The origins of new music (1885-1919): the westernisation of military music and the birth of schoolsong
New music in the May fourth period (1919-1937)
The mass singing movement and musical creation in the anti-Japanese war period (1937-1945)
New music education and creation during the Civil War (1946-1949) and in the seventeen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949-1966)
Yangbanxi and the music of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1979): revolutionary modern Peking opera, ballet, symphonic music and songs
Musical creation after the Cultural Revolution and New Wave music
New music and composers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao
Review and reflection: historical review (1885-1985) and the Sinicisation and modernisation of new music
New development (1996-2006): mainland China, overseas, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
