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Shan-Hua Chien
Chien Shan-hua () is a Taiwanese musicologist. He is currently a professor at thGraduate Institute of Ethnomusicologyand the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University. He has also been the dean of the College of Music and the director of the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology at National Taiwan Normal University. His fields of interests include composition, musical theory, the history of western music, choral conducting, world music, Asian music, Austronesian music, the music of Taiwanese aboriginals, and ethnomusicology. Chien began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University in 1972. He studied vocal music under Tai Su-lun (戴序倫) and Tseng Shiou-ling (鄭秀玲) and composition under Liu Te-yi (劉德義). In 1978 Chien began his master studies at the University of California, Irvine. He studied choral conducting under Joseph P. Huszti, composition under Peter S. Odegard, and vocal music under Mahlon Schanze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qian (surname)
Qian (; Shanghainese: ), also spelt Chin, Chien, Tsien, or Zee in Wu Chinese, is a common Chinese family name. The name literally means "money". Qian is listed at the second place in the Song Dynasty text ''Hundred Family Surnames'', in the line 趙錢孫李 ( Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li). As the royal surname of the kingdom of Wuyue, Qian was regarded as second only to Zhao, the imperial surname of the Song. As of 2008, Qian is the 96th most common surname in China, shared by 2.2 million people, with the province with the most people sharing the name being Jiangsu, an area formerly within the Wuyue kingdom. Origins According to the Song dynasty book, '' Tongzhi'', the Qian surname is descended from Zhuanxu, one of the legendary Five Emperors, via Pengzu, the founder of the Peng kingdom in modern-day Jiangsu during the Shang dynasty. A Zhou dynasty official, Fu, was a descendant of Pengzu and served in the royal Treasury, the ''Qianfu'' ("Money Office"). His descendants adopted the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
