Missionaries and the beginnings of Western music in China : the Catholic prelude, 1294-1799
Journal: Unitec Research Bank (Unitec Institute of Technology)
Year: 2018

"Next to the Word of God, only music deserves being extolled as the mistress and governess of the feelings of the human heart" — Martin Luther (1538)&#13;\n&#13;\nThe history of modern China is closely intertwined with the global expansion of Christianity. The Protestant movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in particular, as some scholars have convincingly argued, had played an important part in China’s search for modernity.&#13;\n&#13;\nNo other agents of Western influence managed