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Qin Dexiang
Retired music teacher and national representative bearer of Changzhou chanting who spent decades recording and editing Changzhou-dialect recitation of classical verse.
Mural of the cultural record “Qin Songs and Chanting”, which this person is tied to.
Qin Dexiang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, in May 1939 and taught music at Changzhou No. 1 Middle School. For decades he collected, recorded and studied Changzhou chanting, the dialect recitation of classical poetry and prose. In 2004 he received Zhao Yuanren's 1971 American recordings of Changzhou chanting and transcribed and studied them; in 2006 he recorded more than ten Changzhou-born scholars, among them Zhou Youguang and Tu An, helping the tradition onto the second national intangible heritage list in 2008. His publications include Guyun jindiao. He died of illness in 2016.
Life and times
Dates 1939 CE–2016 CE