Wang Changyuan
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Wang Changyuan (surname Wang; Chinese: 王昌元, Pinyin: Wáng Chāngyuán) is a Chinese guzheng performer and composer.
The daughter of the guzheng master Wang Xunzhi, she graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and in 1984 went to the United States to study world music at Kent State University.
Wang Changyuan is the composer of the famous guzheng solo piece, Zhan Tai Feng (Chinese: 战台风, "The Fight with the Typhoon"), a dramatic depiction of fight of the Shanghai harbour proletariat against the forces of nature, while protecting the property of the people and the Chinese communist government. She composed the work in 1965 while living for three months in the dormitories of the Shanghai harbour and sharing her quarters with the workers there.
Wang lives, performs, and teaches in Rego Park, Queens, New York. Her name is sometimes also spelled Wang Chang Yuan, Wang ChangYuan, Wang Chang-Yuan, Wang Chang-yuan, Chang-Yuan Wang, or Chang Yuan Wang.
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