Qiang Flute - Interview with Zhang Yanshuo
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Today, we have an interview with Professor Zhang Yanshuo, a scholar at Pomona College who studies a group of people that have existed on the peripheries of Chinese soceity for several millennia. The Qiang are a group of people who exist in China today, but also who have records discussing them as early as the Oracle Bones of the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago. In today's podcast, we discuss what a poem on a Qiang flute says about the relationship between the Qiang and the Han Chinese. 
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