Department, Guizhou Normal University. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians’ Association and Director of the Society for Nuo-drama of China. Tsao Penyeh is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest in Chinese music includes singing-narratives, puppet theatre, and ritual music. Tsao heads the Ritual Music in China Research Programme at the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aiming to systematically investigate Taoist and Buddhist ritual music as well as ritual music of other ethnic nationalities in China. With a team of twenty scholars, the Research Programme is presently conducting a three-year project ‘Comparative Study of Regional and Transregional Taoist Ritual Music Traditions of Major Temples in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’. Tian Lian-tao is an ethnomusicologist and composer, and professor of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. He has conducted extensive research into the traditional music of China’s minority nationalities for more than forty years. Xiu Hailin was born in Shanghai in 1952 and graduated from the department of Musicology at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1983. He is currently the Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Institute of Music, Central Conservatory of Music. Tsui Ying is currently an ethnomusicology Ph.D. student in the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). He received his B.A. in 1987 and his M.Phil. (Chinese music), in 1990 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major field of interest in Chinese instrumental music. In Hong Kong, he has been active as a Chinese flute player as well as a conductor in the modernized Chinese folk orchestras, as well as a Western flute player, for over a decade. His master thesis studied amateur Chinese orchestras in Hong Kong in the seventies with reference to the musical characteristics of the kind of repertoire performed and the social context in which the orchestras emerged. Tsui’s doctoral dissertation is on the issues concerning the traditional Cantonese music ensemble. Ruth Wingyu Yee , a founder of the Shatin Cantonese Opera Troupe, Hong Kong, has for the past ten years been serving on its management committee and performing as a principal actress. She was a solo folksong singer

DOI link for Department, Guizhou Normal University. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians’ Association and Director of the Society for Nuo-drama of China. Tsao Penyeh is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest in Chinese music includes singing-narratives, puppet theatre, and ritual music. Tsao heads the Ritual Music in China Research Programme at the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aiming to systematically investigate Taoist and Buddhist ritual music as well as ritual music of other ethnic nationalities in China. With a team of twenty scholars, the Research Programme is presently conducting a three-year project ‘Comparative Study of Regional and Transregional Taoist Ritual Music Traditions of Major Temples in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’. Tian Lian-tao is an ethnomusicologist and composer, and professor of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. He has conducted extensive research into the traditional music of China’s minority nationalities for more than forty years. Xiu Hailin was born in Shanghai in 1952 and graduated from the department of Musicology at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1983. He is currently the Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Institute of Music, Central Conservatory of Music. Tsui Ying is currently an ethnomusicology Ph.D. student in the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). He received his B.A. in 1987 and his M.Phil. (Chinese music), in 1990 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major field of interest in Chinese instrumental music. In Hong Kong, he has been active as a Chinese flute player as well as a conductor in the modernized Chinese folk orchestras, as well as a Western flute player, for over a decade. His master thesis studied amateur Chinese orchestras in Hong Kong in the seventies with reference to the musical characteristics of the kind of repertoire performed and the social context in which the orchestras emerged. Tsui’s doctoral dissertation is on the issues concerning the traditional Cantonese music ensemble. Ruth Wingyu Yee , a founder of the Shatin Cantonese Opera Troupe, Hong Kong, has for the past ten years been serving on its management committee and performing as a principal actress. She was a solo folksong singer

Department, Guizhou Normal University. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians’ Association and Director of the Society for Nuo-drama of China. Tsao Penyeh is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest in Chinese music includes singing-narratives, puppet theatre, and ritual music. Tsao heads the Ritual Music in China Research Programme at the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aiming to systematically investigate Taoist and Buddhist ritual music as well as ritual music of other ethnic nationalities in China. With a team of twenty scholars, the Research Programme is presently conducting a three-year project ‘Comparative Study of Regional and Transregional Taoist Ritual Music Traditions of Major Temples in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’. Tian Lian-tao is an ethnomusicologist and composer, and professor of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. He has conducted extensive research into the traditional music of China’s minority nationalities for more than forty years. Xiu Hailin was born in Shanghai in 1952 and graduated from the department of Musicology at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1983. He is currently the Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Institute of Music, Central Conservatory of Music. Tsui Ying is currently an ethnomusicology Ph.D. student in the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). He received his B.A. in 1987 and his M.Phil. (Chinese music), in 1990 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major field of interest in Chinese instrumental music. In Hong Kong, he has been active as a Chinese flute player as well as a conductor in the modernized Chinese folk orchestras, as well as a Western flute player, for over a decade. His master thesis studied amateur Chinese orchestras in Hong Kong in the seventies with reference to the musical characteristics of the kind of repertoire performed and the social context in which the orchestras emerged. Tsui’s doctoral dissertation is on the issues concerning the traditional Cantonese music ensemble. Ruth Wingyu Yee , a founder of the Shatin Cantonese Opera Troupe, Hong Kong, has for the past ten years been serving on its management committee and performing as a principal actress. She was a solo folksong singer