Just ran across this post on Danwei 2.0, which is a web magazine about China. Here is part of their mission statement:

Danwei is a web magazine about China, and a research company. We publish original writing, video, translations, photography and audio about China and the Chinese world.

All of the most recent posts from the current issue concern Chinese musical traditions and instruments; the one I’ve linked to emphasizes some examples of contemporary artists recontextualizing or even repurposing “traditional” instruments. Recent ChinaVine fieldwork has explored this realm of cultural production, and we have even interviewed one of the bands featured in the Danwei 2.0 post: Second Hand Rose. Check it out!

Great stuff so far on the course blog roll, both in terms of assignments and posts of more general interest. Keep it all coming…