First Conference and Founding Members (1969)
Synopsis[.pdf] of the 1969 Conference
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.
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:
- Eugene Anderson
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
- Cyril Birch
Department of Oriental Language, University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Bodman
Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
- E. Bruce Brooks
Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
- Yuen Ren Chao
Department of Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
- Clayton Chuen-tang Chow
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
- James Crump
Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
- Milena Dolezelova
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
- Wolfram Eberhard
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Dale Johnson
East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
- Alan L. Kagan
Department of Music, University of Minnesota
- Chun-jo Liu
Department of East Asian Languages, University of Minnesota
- John McCoy
Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
- David Owen
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Rulan Pian
Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
- Wayne Schlepp
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Harold Shadick
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
- Catherine Stevens
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
- Charles J. Wivell
Department of Foreign and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester
- Daniel S. P. Yang
University Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder
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