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 | | Conductor, composer, erhu recitalist, lecturer, television personality, and author, Shen is called a cultural ambassador and musical renaissance man. He is best known, however, as a music director who internationalized and popularized Chinese music since his professional debut in 1963. |
 | | During the Song dynasty (960-1279), Jin U-Zu, commanding general of the Jin army, was defeated by Yue Fei of the Song dynasty in a number of battles, and retreated to the Hui-quan mountain of Wu-xi. |
 | | The fiddles in silk and bamboo acoustics are supported in ensembles by the end-blown flute, the reed- membrane side-blown flute, the pear-shaped lute known for its five-finger strum, and the grand dulcimer. |
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