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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…

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

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.

Five smiling, casually-dressed people posing in front of a wall of full bookshelves.

Theodore and Rulan Chao Pian with friends at home

From left: Chyou-chu Wen, Mrs. Pian, Mr. Pian, Lo Wai Fong, etc. / 左起：温秋菊、趙如蘭、卞學鐄、陸惠風等。背景為是《四部叢刊》

The living room of a private home, in which a seated woman is speaking to several rows of casually-dressed people sitting on sofas and other furniture.

Professor Chia-ying Yeh giving a presentation at one of the New Dialogues in Cambridge(Jianqiao xin yu) at the Pians' home

A woman and two men sitting at a dining table. The youngest man, in the center, is holding a knife poised over a birthday cake.

Celebrating Lei Liang’s birthday, 1999

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 program of reflections and music in memory of the Pians, illustrated with a photograph of Rulan Chao and Theodore Pian.

A memorial celebration of Rulan Chao Pian and Theodore H. H. Pian

Recorded on March 30th, 2014 at Cabot House, Harvard University.

Eight blue plastic video tape boxes, hand-labelled in Chinese, arranged in a fan shape on a wooden table.

Chunhyangjeon (Tales of Chun Hyang), P'ansori, Harvard University, May 1974

Chunhyangjeon, original ethnographic recordings. 8 ½-inch video reels featuring a performance by the singer Chung Yoo-jin recorded in Paine Hall,…

AWM_RL_6587_v.5_Side_2.mp3

Dwarf Ceremony (Taiwan), November 1966

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