Society for Music Research
Yuhan Wang
Ethnomusicology
Yuhan Wang is a PhD pre-candidate in ethnomusicology. She pays attention to the intangible cultural heritage of music and the related cultural interactions. She is particularly interested in Chinese qin culture (guqin) about its aesthetic analysis, philosophical interpretation, ecology concerning, and intellectual history in premodern history, as well as the continuity and discontinuity discourse for traditional culture under contemporary society in the context of informatization and globalization such as Taiwanese Hengchun folk music. She is also interested in Ludomusicology, especially digital scenes and fields that music engages with. Yuhan has presented papers at several conferences, including SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology) 2023 Annual Conference, 2023 AAS (Association for Asian Studies)-in-Asia Conference, Taiwan Musicology Forum’s 2022 Annual Conference, CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research) 22nd Annual Conference, and ICTMD (International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance) 2025. Yuhan is also affiliated with Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. In her free time, she enjoys playing guqin, photography, graphic designing, audio production technology, and writing poetry.
Contact: starryw@umich.edu
