Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA. Since 1989 her research has
focused on traditional and tourist-oriented musics of southwest China, especially
those of the Naxi and Han. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in
Modern China (2000) and editor of the essay volume Lives in Chinese Music (2009).
She is also active as an interpreter, translator, and presenter for Chinese scholars
and musicians visiting the West, most recently for the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife
Festival. In spring 2008 she was a visiting professor at the Music College of the
Yunnan Art Institute.