Dr Kolly Kwok Wai Ng

Position: Teaching Fellow in Japanese Language
Areas of expertise: Japanese language; Japanese culture; Japanese performing art; music of East Asia, Chinese music; musicology and ethnomusicology; music and human behaviours
Email: K.W.Ng@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)113 343 7300
Location: 5.02 Michael Sadler Building
Website: ORCID

Profile

Having taught in Hong Kong as a lecturer in music and Japanese for fifteen years, I moved to Leeds with my family in 2021 and joined the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds as a teaching fellow in Japanese language.

Research interests

My research focuses on the repertory of Tang music performed in Japan, investigating how the entertainment music was assimilated in Japan after its importation from China during the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties. Over the past decade, I have been examining the historical treatises and musical notations compiled in Japan from the Heian period (794–1185) to the Edo period (1603–1868), aiming at tracing the development of this musical repertory from both musical and cultural perspectives.

For further information of my resaerch, see my ORCID website.

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Qualifications

PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
MA, International Christian University, Japan
BA (Hons), The University of Hong Kong
Postgraduate Diploma in Education, The Education University of Hong Kong

Student education

I teach Japanese language to students from various schools within the university, and I also contribute to the teacing of topics related to East Asian performing arts and modern culture.