History

First Conference and Founding Members (1969)

CHINOPERL was founded in 1969 by Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任, 1892-1982), Harold Shadick (1915-1992), Cyril Birch (1925- ), and other eminent scholars.

The first Meeting of CHINOPERL was held in 1969 at Cornell University.
- See the REPORT on the 1969 CHINOPERL Conference that was published in CHINOPERL Papers (1969)

The acronym, CHINOPERL, was coined by Prof. Y.R. Chao, from CHINese Oral and PERforming Literature.

The participants at that 1969 CHINOPERL Conference — in other words, the founding members of CHINOPERL — total twenty in all.

CHINOPERL FOUNDING MEMBERS:

1. Eugene Anderson
   Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
    
2. Cyril Birch
   Department of Oriental Language, University of California, Berkeley
    
3. Nicholas Bodman
   Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
    
4. E. Bruce Brooks
   Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
    
5. Yuen Ren Chao
   Department of Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
    
6. Clayton Chuen-tang Chow
   Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
    
7. James Crump
   Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
    
8. Milena Dolezelova
   Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
    
9. Wolfram Eberhard
   Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    
10. Dale Johnson
    East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
     
11. Alan L. Kagan
    Department of Music, University of Minnesota
     
12. Chun-jo Liu
    Department of East Asian Languages, University of Minnesota
     
13. John McCoy
    Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
     
14. David Owen
    Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
     
15. Rulan Pian
    Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
     
16. Wayne Schlepp
    Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
     
17. Harold Shadick
    Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
     
18. Catherine Stevens
    Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
     
19. Charles J. Wivell
    Department of Foreign and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester
     
20. Daniel S. P. Yang
    University Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder