Yang Yinliu

Also known as Zi Liangqing · Hao Erzhuang

Yang Yinliu, courtesy name Liangqing, came from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He learned silk-and-bamboo music and Kun opera as a youth and studied at St. John's and Kwang Hua universities in Shanghai. From 1923 he published the Yayin ji scores, and from 1928 he helped edit the Anglican union hymnal. He was a music research fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Peiping in 1936 and in the 1940s taught in the Chinese music department of the National Conservatory and at Ginling Women's College, publishing Guoyue gailun and an outline history of Chinese music in 1943. In 1950 he and his cousin Cao Anhe recorded A Bing in Wuxi. His later life was devoted to the history of ancient Chinese music, culminating in his Draft History of Ancient Chinese Music (1982). He died in Beijing in 1984.