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March 24, 2003 - News Release
Chinese Culture Day Held at the Lake Campus
The Lake Campus of Wright State University recently hosted Chinese Culture Day. Mr. Zhang Ying, a composer and solo performer of classical music, entertained students, faculty, and staff on a number of Chinese woodwinds, and Dr. Bin Yu, internationally renowned expert on East Asian Politics and United States-Chinese relations, led a discussion on “The Korean Crisis: Implications for United States-Chinese Relations.”
Zhang has been awarded China’s highest national award, the Wen Hua Prize, and has been honored with the title of First Class composer and is recorded in the Register of Great Musician as a composer and musician who has helped preserve ancient Chinese musical traditions. He has composed more than 300 pieces, including the sound tracks for two Chinese films, and has won over 40 awards in the People’s Republic of China. Zhang is also a solo performer on eleven different Chinese woodwinds, some dating back 6,000 to 9,000 years and has performed extensively in China, Russia, Poland, Romania, France, and the United States. He moved to Minneapolis and has been awarded a number of grants and fellowships and performs extensively.
A native of China, Dr. Bin Yu is presently is an associate professor of political science at Wittenburg University. His teachings and research focus on East Asian politics, Russian foreign relations, and United States-China relations. Dr. Yu currently serves as advisor/senior research associate for the Shanghai American Studies Center at the Mershon Institute, Ohio State University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, visiting scholar at Lingnan University of Hong Kong, and a McArthur fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford and the author of many books and articles that have appeared in a number of professional journals.
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