Uncovering the Hidden History of Chinese Music in Aotearoa

This is a Friends of the Hocken Collections Talk Series event:

Henry Johnson is Professor of Music at the University of Otago. His research interests are in the anthropology of music, Asian Studies and Island Studies, and he has carried out field research in a number of locations in Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. His books include Asia in the Making of New Zealand (2006); Many voices: Music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2010); Recentring Asia (2011); Migration, Education and Translation (2020); Okinawa in the World Music Market (2021). He is Associate Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago and is currently researching Chinese music history in New Zealand with the help of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.