Bio
Starry Yuhan Wang is currently a Ph.D. pre-candidate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Starry pays attention to intangible cultural heritage of music and the related cultural interactions. She is particularly interested in Chinese qin culture (guqin) about its aesthetic analysis, philosophical interpretation, ecology concerning, and intellectual history in premodern history, as well as the continuity and discontinuity discourse for traditional culture under contemporary society in the context of informatization and globalization. With a focus on the discourses about scene/space (both physical and virtual ones), the engagement and interaction process of different participants, as well as people’s structure of feeling, nostalgia narrative, and identity presentation in the musical process, she is also interested in modern poetry of Taiwan, Taiwanese folk music, game music and audio-visual aesthetics from both music and non-music perspectives.
Starry has presented papers at several conferences, including SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology) 2023 Annual Conference, 2023 AAS (Association for Asian Studies)-in-Asia Conference, Taiwan Musicology Forum’s 2022 Annual Conference, CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research) 22nd Annual Conference, and ICTMD 2025 World Conference (pending). In her free time, Starry enjoys playing guqin, photography, graphic designing, audio production technology researching, and writing poems.
