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The corner of a room whose walls are covered with crowded bookshelves. A small settee or bed is made up and piled with folded blankets; several blue cloths suspended from a pole can be pulled down to screen the space.

Bell’s corner of the Pian home, including Professor Rulan Chao Pian’s library.

A cozy-looking room filled with stuffed armchairs and bookshelves lining the walls. The mantel above a small fireplace is lined with vases and small sculptures; a low shelf or table directly in front is covered in more piles of books.

The Pians' living room

Two-page typewritten letter.

Letter from Professor Pian to Mary Lou Little, Librarian, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, with helpful information about catalog cards for Chinese materials, 1967

Transcription:

Harvard University
Department of Far Eastern Languages
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

May 21, 1967

Miss…

Donation list for Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

Donation list for Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

A blocky, handheld video camera with an extended lens, hand grip, and small tripod.

Sony AVC-3400 Video Camera

Photograph by Patricia Bérubé and Joachim Raginel, 2019.

CHINOPERL news

A woman looking through the eyepiece of a hand-held video camera, standing in a crowd of people of all ages.

Rulan Chao videotaping Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, 1975

A beaming woman holding a bouquet, standing next to a table with drinks and a platter of food, and surrounded by a semi-circle of smiling people.

Rulan Chao Pian receiving flowers at her department retirement party, 1992

A woman in Harvard doctoral regalia, next to an older man in cap and gown, leading a procession of women in caps and gowns across a lawn.

Commencement procession at Radcliffe College, 1965

A white-haired man in a suit and tie, posing with two women in jackets and blouses. All three are holding drinks.

With John Ward and friends at Harvard, 1991

From left: Visiting fellow Wang Di, John Ward, Rulan Chao Pian / 左起訪問學者、古琴專家王迪，John Ward，趙如蘭

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