Mei Han

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Han.

Mei Han (name given in Chinese order as Han Mei; simplified: 韩梅; traditional: 韓梅; pinyin: Hán Méi) is a Chinese guzheng performer and scholar.

Han performs in traditional, contemporary, and cross-cultural contexts. She studied with Zhang Yan and Gao Zicheng. She performs with the Orchid Ensemble and Randy Raine-Reusch.

She holds two master's degrees in ethnomusicology: from the Musical Research Institute of the Chinese Arts Academy in Beijing (1995) and from the University of British Columbia (2000). She wrote the "Zheng" article for the second edition of the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001).

She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with her husband Randy Raine-Reusch.