Biography
Wang Fei started her guqin studies in 1981 with Prof. Li Xiangting, who soon regarded her as his most promising student out of his 300 or so students worldwide. She gradually developed a high understanding of qin music throughout her study and has done numerous research on it. She also mastered many technically difficult melodies, including Youlan and Guangling San.
She has given a number of performances and concerts throughout the world, especially in China, the United States, and Japan. She also participated in many seminars, conferences and lectures in China. She has been written about and interviewed by over a hundred journalists in the media in China, Japan, and the United States. Her biographical profile was included in the Chinese version of World Who's Who in 1998 and World Class Chinese Intellectuals in the Musical And Artistic Fields, vol. 5.
As well as being a high-class performer of the guqin, she also promotes its culture by organising qin related events, such as conferences and yajis. She has often held speeches, seminars, lectures workshops and demonstrations at various academic establishments as well as the public. She has also written many articles as an introduction to the qin for many people. When she was in Beijing, she and her "Three Sisters of Beijing Literature and Art Studio" did much to promote the qin in China. Her studio also supports other qin-related organisations.
She then moved to the United States, where she began to use technology to promote and expand the interest of the qin. In particular, she was the first MA graduate in Multimedia Studies from China at California State University, Hayward (the first multimedia graduate program in the United States); which she used her knowledge to establish an online guqin community, the North American Guqin Association (NAGA), in 1997. Thousands of people around the world have contacted her through her work. In 2002, she organised the first ever online guqin gathering.
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