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A woman playing a guqin set on a table with a score laid in front of it.

Professor Pian plays guqin at home, 1997

A crouching woman with an attentive expression, holding a video camera, amidst a group of standing observers.

Professor Pian videotaping the Confucian Ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, 1974

A smiling man in a suit and a woman in a blouse and trousers standing in a courtyard outside a red building.

Professor Pian with Korean musicologist Yi Hyegu after the Confucian Ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, 1974

A broadly smiling woman. Her dark hair is pulled neatly back into a bun, and she is wearing a blazer, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace. There are laugh lines around her eyes and mouth.

Professor Rulan Chao Pian (Apr.20, 1922 – Nov.30, 2013)

A woman seated on the floor, looking into the eyepiece of a handheld video camera.

Professor Rulan Chao Pian taking a video of a Korean Janggu (drum) lesson, Seoul, South Korea, 1974

A framed, oblong ink brush painting of a landscape with trees and two small blue birds.

Qin player and listener

An open book with two pages of music for qin, in Chinese character notation.

Qin pu he bi [er zhong san juan]: Taigu yi yin [er juan] ; Boya xin fa [yi juan]

A formal, black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile, her greying dark hair is pulled back, and she is wearing a light blouse and dark pinstriped blazer.

Rulan Chao Pian on her induction to Academia Sinica in Taiwan, 1991.

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 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

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