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E-mail: shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk

Shzr Ee Tan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Royal Holloway, currently researching musical activities on new media platforms in the Chinese diaspora. Her research touches on phenomena ranging from viral videos to politico-musical activism on the internet. Shzr Ee completed her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, studying Amis aboriginal folksong of Taiwan in interacting contexts of the village, the cultural troupe, the popular music industry and Christian missionisation. Her other interests include music and politics, urban ethnomusicology and connections between music and food cultures. She has published on music, kitsch, media and politics in Singapore, as well as on aboriginal song in Taiwan.

Shzr Ee is an active musician with a background in classical piano, tango/Balkan accordion, Chinese and Okinawan lutes (sanxian and sanshin), the Chinese fiddle (erhu) and various East Asian percussion instruments. She is a member of several ensembles based in London, including a jazz-improv quartet, a tango band and a Chinese silk and bamboo ensemble. Some of the venues in which she has appeared include the South Bank, the Truman Brewery and The Arts House, Singapore. Shzr Ee also has experience as a print journalist in Asia, having worked for an extensive period of time as an arts correspondent for The Straits Times in Singapore, and thereafter magazines and newspapers in the Far East on a freelance basis. She continues to contribute columns on film, music and culture to various media.