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Tsai Tsan Huang
B.A. (CCU), M.Mus (Sheffield), M.Phil (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon)

Tsai received his undergraduate degree at the Chinese music department, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. He studied Ethnomusicology (M.Mus degree) in the University of Sheffield and Anthropology (M.Phil and D.Phil degree) in the University of Oxford. He taught three years at Department of Ethnomusicology, Nanhua University, Taiwan before joining the department. At CUHK he teaches ethnomusicology, world musics, and Chinese folk songs and ritual music. His recent publications include "Who Owns Theory? The Gap between Indigenous and Scholarly Cultural Frameworks in the Studies of Chinese Buddhist Music and the Chinese Seven-stringed Zither" in The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society, (2005:110-128), “The Entangled Relationship between Life Stories and Musical Instruments: A Case-study of the Qin” in the Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (2004: 163-93), and several others.

Research Interests

Chinese seven-stringed zither, Chinese Buddhist music, music of Taiwan, organology, ethnomusicology, material anthropology

Personal Homepage

http://web.mac.com/thtsai/Site_1/Welcome.html

Contact

Email: thtsai@cuhk.edu.hk

Fax: (852) 2603-5273

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