Photographs of Rulan Chao Pian to Accompany CHINOPERL 33.2 (December 2014)

Photos and captions provided by Bell Yung

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1974: Rulan Chao Pian videotaping at Confucius Shrine in Seoul, Korea, assisted by Rob Provine, her doctoral student in Korean music. Photo courtesy of Jean Provine.

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1974: Rulan Chao Pian videotaping a music lesson from the balcony of the Provines’ home, Seoul, Korea. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1974: Rulan Chao Pian with the eminent Korean musicologist Lee Hye-ku 李惠求, Seoul, Korea. Photo courtesy of Jean Provine.

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1975: Rulan Chao Pian with Conal Boyce, her student in Chinese literature, at the Fu Lung Teahouse in Hong Kong where Bell Yung was taping the performance of the blind singer Dou Wun. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1975: Rulan Chao Pian with Conal Boyce (left) and Masato Nishimura, two of her students in Chinese literature, at the Fu Lung Teahouse in Hong Kong where Bell Yung was taping the performance of the blind singer Dou Wun. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1975: Rulan Chao Pian videotaping Cantonese Opera, assisted by Joseph Lam 林萃青(facing camera) and Masato Nishimura 西村萬里, Hong Kong. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1975: Rulan Chao Pian and Masato Nishimura at Mongkok Night Market, Hong Kong. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1979: Rulan Chao Pian with the great musician Wei Zhongle 衛仲樂, Shanghai. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1980: Rulan Chao Pian with the eminent musicologist Yang Yinliu 楊蔭瀏, Beijing. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1981: Rulan Chao Pian with (L to R): Cao Anhe 曹安和, Yuen Ren Chao 趙元任, and Yang Yinliu 楊蔭瀏, Beijing. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1982: Rulan Chao Pian with (L to R): Lin Youren 林友仁, Yao Bingyan 姚丙炎, and Teng Yongran 滕永然, Shanghai. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1980s: Rulan Chao Pian and Perry Link performing xiangsheng at the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of Chun-jo Liu.

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1985: Rulan Chao Pian with (L to R): Dai Penghai 戴鹏海, Teng Yongran 騰永然, Chen Yingshi 陳應時, and Lin Youren 林友仁, Shanghai. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1988: Rulan Chao Pian, with Chun-jo Liu and Bell Yung, practicing for the CHINOPERL Frolic in the conference hotel lobby, San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Ted Pian.

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1990: Rulan Chao Pian in a formal portrait, taken when she was inducted as a fellow of Academia Sinica.

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1991: Rulan Chao Pian with (L to R) David Moser, Bell Yung, Fan Pen Chen, and Chun-jo Liu performing at the CHINOPERL Frolic in New Orleans. Photo courtesy of Ted Pian.

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1994: Rulan Chao Pian with Ted Pian, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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1997: Rulan Chao Pian with (L to R): Joseph Lam, Bell Yung, and Siu Wah Yu at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Photo courtesy of Ted Pian.

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2012: Rulan Chao Pian on her 90th Birthday, Cambridge, MA. Photo courtesy of Bell Yung.

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