The rise of the piano art in China

This thesis focuses on the emergence, development and characteristics of the piano art in China. Piano art as one of the kind of art have been developed in China for about one century, but its development was very tangled and complicated. The author divides the whole process of the development of the piano art in China into four important phases. It focuses on the period from the first contact of piano art with China until the current period of apparent presperity. The thesis does not exclude the period of the Cultural Revolution, but it handles the political issues only marginally