The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh: War, Colonialism, and the Cultural Revolution
Gavin S. K. Lee is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium and Elizabeth Wood fellow at the University of Adelaide, who specializes in Sinophone, global and LGBTQ+ music history. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Western Sydney University (2022-3) and taught at Soochow University, China for nine years. A former editor of the International Musicological Society’s publication Musicological Brainfood, Lee has presented guest lectures in the US, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan and China, including a keynote for the Musicological Society of Australia 2023 conference. He is the editor of Queer Ear (OUP, 2024 SMT award), Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music (Routledge), and the special journal issues Global Musical Modernisms (TCM) and Global Music History Course Design (JMHP).