3:30pm | Regenstein Library | Room 523

Screening: Shajiabang 

(1971, model opera, dir. Wu Zhaodi, Ma Erlu, Jiang Shusen, starring Tan Yuanshou, Hong Xuefei)

Guest speaker: Isabel Wong

  Isabel Wong, an ethnomusicologist specializes in the music and theater of China, is a professor emeritus of the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before her retirement, she was also the Director of the office of Faculty and Institutional International Collaboration of the University.  In recent years, the University of Illinois has many significant collaborations with China, and Isabel Wong plays an important part.  Isabel Wong’s research and publications cover several subjects, chief among them are Kunqu, the intellectual history of modern Chinese music and musicologist, revolutionary songs for the masses of the PRC, and Shanghai popular songs between the World Wars.