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DESCRIPTION:Western classical music provides an intriguing lens to explore 
 the stakes of world history “after globalization\,” seeing that classi
 cal music is shaped by its own entanglements with European imperialism\, c
 olonization\, and canonized “great composers” and “classics” (Webe
 r 1999\; Walker 2020). Global integration persists\, though always within 
 different contexts and conditions of empire.\n\nThis paper ventures beyond
  grand narratives of music and empire to examine empire’s global grain\,
  treating it as a site of archival textures and fissures (Stoler 2009\; Li
 ao 2023)—and as a means of understanding uneven connections as they rela
 te to classical music in late-colonial Hong Kong between 1987 and 1991. Sp
 ecifically\, the paper focuses on two sets of documentary materials held c
 urrently at the Hong Kong Public Records Office. The first concerns piano 
 storyboards for Chinese-language television commercials vetted and sanctio
 ned by the government\, in particular their recurring motifs of instrument
 al craft and British musical excellence (in the form of ABRSM exams)—and
  an advertising rhetoric that ostensibly smooths over cross-cultural encou
 nters while symbolically reifying the European canon. The second set of ma
 terials concerns the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s public orchestral experime
 nts and the ways in which their newspaper reviews reveal both new audience
  interest among the local Chinese population and entrenched concertgoing h
 abits\, often though not exclusively among the colony’s foreign national
 s. By analyzing empire’s global grain in late-colonial Hong Kong\, the p
 aper reflects further on the postcolonial legacy and lexicon of “East As
 ian classical music\,” as part of a world historiography marked by conta
 ct and slippage.
DTSTAMP:20260412T140532Z
LOCATION:Room 201 (Seats 42)
SUMMARY:Empire’s Global Grain: Uneven Connections\, Piano Storyboards\, a
 nd Philharmonic Reviews from Late-Colonial Hong Kong\, 1987–1991 - Yvonn
 e Liao
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/LEPBGQ/
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