Xixian yinyue zazhi/Xi county music zine 2011–2022

Xixian yinyue zazhi is a zine written and edited by Xi Zhi Zi (“Son of Xi”), a music lover living in Xi, a little-known county subordinate to Xinyang, central China’s Henan province. Three issues have been published between 2011 and 2022. The original purpose of the zine’s creation was to document the editor's personal impressions of music magazines he had read, as well as to collect information on various Chinese music magazines. This project has continued until now, with 63 reviews of music magazines written and over 400 entries on Chinese music magazines collected. Starting from the third issue, the zine ventured into a new domain—music media research. It focuses on introducing rare sound storage media (such as shaped vinyl records, shaped thin-film records, shaped CDs, open reel tapes, MD discs, disk records, USB records, and MP3 Buddha chanting machines) collected by the editor over the years, along with accompanying images and textual information. This is a one-person zine, a one-person nostalgia and celebration.