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Yawen Ludden
Dr Yawen Ludden’s primary research interest is in the Chinese performing arts during the Cultural Revolution. In particular, she is interested in the role that these played in China’s transformation from a traditional society to a modern nation state during the last half of the twentieth century. Dr Ludden regularly presents her research at regional, national and international conferences. In 2010, she received a Fulbright Fellowship, enabling her to spend a year at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she conducted research on the modernization of China’s iconic art form, Beijing opera. This research project included scores of interviews with musicians, performers and conductors who were instrumental in the transformation of this traditional art form into a performance art with mass appeal in China even to the present day. She has published her findings both in Chinese and in English.