Lecturer: Nancy Yunhwa Rao Profile: Nancy Yunhwa Rao has produced award-winning research on a range of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans. Her publications have provided innovative analytical approaches to cross-cultural music, and enhanced public discussions about cultural encounter in music. Through her scholarship, as well as teaching, she has promoted diversity and advanced knowledge and dialogue about the complexity of diversity issues in music scholarship.Rao’s book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2017), tells the story of iconic … Continue reading Academic Lecture (255): “Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artisry in Nineteenth-Century California Beyond”