Po-Wei
Mandarin Teacher, Dorm Parent
Originally from Taiwan, Po-wei is a researcher, performing artist, and teacher with a diversified background in higher and K-12 education in the fields of ethnomusicology, Chinese music and theater, popular cultures and technology, and teaching Chinese as a second language. Po-wei is particularly interested in the studies of instrumental and theatrical music genres and their mediated representations in contemporary popular culture forms, such as Chinese martial arts films and digitized video puppetry. His extended research interests include East Asian popular culture in post-colonial and transnational contexts, music, and technology.
As an active scholar, Po-wei frequently presents papers at major conferences in the U.S. and East Asian locations. He has also given lectures, presentations, and workshops at colleges and schools across the U.S. and Taiwan, including Skidmore College, Boston College, Bryant Unviersity, Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and National Taiwan Unviersity.
Po-wei's recent publications include, "If You Can Recite You Can Play It: The Transmission and Transciption of Jinhju (Peking Opera) Percussion Music" (2016), "Masculinized China vs. the Feminized West: Musical Intertextuality and Cultural Representation in Once Upon a Time in China I and II" (2014), and "Secularizing Ritual Music: Re-Invention of Bayin from the Pengu Archipelago, Taiwan" (forthcoming).
Po-wei has a BEd in primary education and music education from National Taichung University of Education, an MA in Musicology from National Taiwan Unviersity, and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University.
As an active scholar, Po-wei frequently presents papers at major conferences in the U.S. and East Asian locations. He has also given lectures, presentations, and workshops at colleges and schools across the U.S. and Taiwan, including Skidmore College, Boston College, Bryant Unviersity, Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and National Taiwan Unviersity.
Po-wei's recent publications include, "If You Can Recite You Can Play It: The Transmission and Transciption of Jinhju (Peking Opera) Percussion Music" (2016), "Masculinized China vs. the Feminized West: Musical Intertextuality and Cultural Representation in Once Upon a Time in China I and II" (2014), and "Secularizing Ritual Music: Re-Invention of Bayin from the Pengu Archipelago, Taiwan" (forthcoming).
Po-wei has a BEd in primary education and music education from National Taichung University of Education, an MA in Musicology from National Taiwan Unviersity, and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University.
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