First Conference and Founding Members (1969)
Synopsis[.pdf] of the 1969 Conference
The first Meeting of CHINOPERL was held in 1969 at Cornell University.
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 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. They were:
- Eugene Anderson
- Cyril Birch
- Nicholas Bodman
- E. Bruce Brooks
- Yuen Ren Chao
- Clayton Chuen-tang Chow
- James Crump
- Milena Dolezelova
- Wolfram Eberhard
- Dale Johnson
- Alan L. Kagan
- Chun-jo Liu
- John McCoy
- David Owen
- Rulan Pian
- Wayne Schlepp
- Harold Shadick
- Catherine Stevens
- Charles J. Wivell
- Daniel S. P. Yang
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