This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

This article serves as an introduction to our upcomingseries on classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we will show you how musicians play the eight ...

The single-stringed instrument is an important musical instrument used by the Jing ethnic group in ceremonies praying for blessings from the sea. The Jing people is China's only "maritime ethnic group ...

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...

All of a sudden and seemingly with neither warning nor much explanation, the MTR Corporation has decided to prohibit passengers from taking large musical instruments such as cellos and guzheng (a ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

MURFREESBORO — Mei Han's journey to Murfreesboro comes through an international performing career and an academic opportunity she couldn't turn down. The job of founding director of the Chinese Center ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...