Image credit: ​"Wild Geese Landing on Flat Sand", Eight Scenes of the Rivers Xiao and Xiang, by Mu Xi of Southern Song Dynasty. The painting is in the collection of Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
​南宋末禪僧畫家牧谿。瀟湘八景之平沙落雁。日本東京出光美術館蔵    

​Brief Bio

Bell Yung, an ethnomusicologist specializing in China, is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh where he retired in 2012. He has also taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University, University of California at Davis, and Cornell University, and is a recipient of research awards from Guggenheim, Ford, Mellon, National Endowment of the Humanities, and others. He has published twelve books and over 100 journal articles, book chapters and reviews, in English and in Chinese. In addition he edited two museum catalogues, and produced eight sets of CDs and one set of DVD of the Cantonese Narrative song called Nanyin, based upon fieldwork material he collected in Hong Kong in 1975.  
 
Bell Yung’s family is from Wuxi, China. Born in Shanghai in 1941, he grew up in Hong Kong and graduated from the high school Wah Yan College Kowloon. In 1960 he went to the U.S. for higher education, receiving a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of California in Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Music from Harvard University. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

 
榮鴻曾(Bell Yung)專業民族音樂學及中國傳統音樂，曾任教香港中文大學、香港大學、加州大學、康乃爾大學，現為匹茲堡大學音樂系榮休教授。榮氏曾獲多項研究基金，包括美國的古根海姆、福特、梅倫、國家人文基金、蔣經國等，及香港的研資局、藝展局、群芳、北山堂等。榮氏著、編、譯十本專書及文章约一百篇, 錄製雷射唱片“香港文化瑰寶：瞽師杜煥富隆茶樓歷史錄音”八輯和雷射影碟一輯。
 
榮鴻曾原藉無錫，1941年生在上海，香港長大，畢業於九龍華仁書院。1960年赴美國，先後獲得加州大學工程物理學士，麻省理工學院物理博士，及哈佛大學音樂博士。2012年獲頒授香港中文大學榮譽博士。