Meet the Creator

Annie Liu is a current master’s student studying musicology, bassoon performance, and new media and culture at the University of Oregon. She received her undergraduate degrees in general science and bassoon performance from Penn State University as a Schreyer Honors Scholar.

As a Cykler Song Scholar, she researches shidaiqu or “songs of the times” and created this web resource as a public musicology resource about Shanghai popular song. Her research interests include Chinese music, timbre, music cognition, and new media. She is especially interested in the intersection between politics, power, mass media, and Chinese music in the twentieth century.

Outside of academics, Annie enjoys traveling, visiting coffee shops, playing the bassoon, and hanging out with her cat, Mouse.