Scope and Contents: The Rulan Chao Pian Collection contains field recordings, commercial recordings, books, and scores donated by the Harvard Professor Rulan Chao Pian. The bulk of archival materials come from her extensive research on Chinese opera, the history of music of the Song Dynasty, the Saisiyat dwarf spirit ceremony in Taiwan, Korean Pansori, and the Korean sacrificial ceremony for Confucius. Her work includes the study several oral literatures, such as danxian (單弦), jingyun drum (京韻大鼓), and huaer...

Scope and Contents: The Rulan Chao Pian Collection contains field recordings, commercial recordings, books, and scores donated by the Harvard Professor Rulan Chao Pian. The bulk of archival materials come from her extensive research on Chinese opera, the history of music of the Song Dynasty, the Saisiyat dwarf spirit ceremony in Taiwan, Korean Pansori, and the Korean sacrificial ceremony for Confucius. Her work includes the study several oral literatures, such as danxian (單弦), jingyun drum (京韻大鼓), and huaer...

Scope and Contents:

Drawings of which some were originally leaves of codex manuscripts. Some have text in Sanskrit and Hindi.

Scope and Contents: The Rulan Chao Pian Collection contains field recordings, commercial recordings, books, and scores donated by the Harvard Professor Rulan Chao Pian. The bulk of archival materials come from her extensive research on Chinese opera, the history of music of the Song Dynasty, the Saisiyat dwarf spirit ceremony in Taiwan, Korean Pansori, and the Korean sacrificial ceremony for Confucius. Her work includes the study several oral literatures, such as danxian (單弦), jingyun drum (京韻大鼓), and huaer...

Scope and Contents:

Drawings of which some were originally leaves of codex manuscripts. Some have text in Sanskrit and Hindi.

Scope and Contents: The Rulan Chao Pian Collection contains field recordings, commercial recordings, books, and scores donated by the Harvard Professor Rulan Chao Pian. The bulk of archival materials come from her extensive research on Chinese opera, the history of music of the Song Dynasty, the Saisiyat dwarf spirit ceremony in Taiwan, Korean Pansori, and the Korean sacrificial ceremony for Confucius. Her work includes the study several oral literatures, such as danxian (單弦), jingyun drum (京韻大鼓), and huaer...