Yang Yinliu

Yang Yinliu was a Chinese musicologist. Among the leading scholars of Chinese music, "his deep historical knowledge and practical musicianship assure his seminal influence on Chinese music study today." Yinliu's monumental Draft History of Chinese Music was published in 1981.

Life and career

He was the editor of the Zhongguo Yinyue Cidian. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and was a professor at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
One part of his research was dedicated to the Chinese folk musician Hua Yanjun .