First Conference and Founding Members (1969)
CHINOPERL was founded in 1969 by Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任, 1892–1982), Harold Shadick (1915–1992), Cyril Birch (1925–2023), and other eminent scholars.
The first Meeting of CHINOPERL was held in 1969 at Cornell University. See the REPORT that was published in CHINOPERL Papers (1969).
The acronym, CHINOPERL, was coined by Prof. Y.R. Chao, from CHINese Oral and PERforming Literature. The participants at that 1969 CHINOPERL Conference — in other words, the founding members of CHINOPERL — total twenty in all.
CHINOPERL Founding Members
Eugene Anderson
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Cyril Birch
Department of Oriental Language, University of California, Berkeley
Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
E. Bruce Brooks
Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
Department of Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
Clayton Chuen-tang Chow
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Milena Dolezelova
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Dale Johnson
East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
Alan L. Kagan
Department of Music, University of Minnesota
Department of East Asian Languages, University of Minnesota
Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University
David Owen
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University
Wayne Schlepp
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Charles J. Wivell
Department of Foreign and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester
Daniel S. P. Yang
University Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder