An ethnomusicologist specializing in traditional East Asian music, particularly Chinese, Japanese, and Korean instruments and their roles in various regional genres and cultural contexts.
Concerning my itinerary for the upcoming fieldwork in rural Shandong province, I must emphasize the critical importance of securing timely access to the local performance ensembles; their unique repertoire of sheng and guzheng music is rapidly disappearing, and delays could prove exceptionally detrimental to my research objectives.