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Mingmei Yip

 

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Reading of Peach Blossom Pavilion


Book signing, China Institute, New York City, Sept. 27, 08

With Hannelore Hahn, founder and executive director of International Women's Writer's Guild, Sept 27, China Institute

Reading from Peach Blossom Pavilion, City College of San Francisco, Feb. 20, 09

Book reading/signing and qin performance, China Institute, 08

The magificient "book" cake, Marymount Manhattan College, the Writing Center, at Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Mar. 4, 09

With #1 best-selling author Bruce Jay Friedman, Sherry-Netherland Hotel, March 4, 09

With other literary guests, Marymount Manhattan College, benefactors' dinner, Serry-Netherland Hotel, March 4, 09

Qin performance, Marymount Manhattan College, gala benefactors' dinner, Serry-Netherland Hotel

Barnes & Noble, Tribeca, New York City, June 27, 2008

Display of Peach Blossom Pavilion at Barnes & Noble, Tribeca, June 27, 2008

"Writers on the Vine, Coming to America" Interview, from let to right: Dr. Harod Fernandez, Victoria Redel, host Larry Daivdson, me, Long Island, 2008

Signing Peach Blossom Pavilion at Writers on the Vine, Long Island Vineyeard, 2008

Barnes & Noble, Tribeca, June 27, 2008

The huge poster of Peach Blossom Pavilion at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lyndhurst, Ohio, July, 2008

Display of Peach Blossom Pavilion at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2008

Joseph-Beth Booksellers reading/signing, Lyndhurst, Ohio, 2008

Signing Peach Blossom Pavilion, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2008

Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2008

Discussing Peach Blossom Pavilion and playing the qin for WCPN-FM live national radio interview, Cleveland, July 10, 08.

Interview, Eire Chinese Journal, left to right: reporter Karen Yuan, me, Cleveland State University Ph. D candidate Baixi Su

Signing Peach Blossom Pavilion, Book Inc. San Francisco, Aug. 08

Readers enjoying both Peach Blossom Pavilion and Chinese Children's Favorite Stories

Audience at Book Inc., San Francisco,
Aug. 08

Signing, Book Passage, San Francisco, Aug. 08

Readers holding Peach Blossom Pavilion, Book Passage, San Francisco, Aug. 08

Signing Peach Blossom Pavilion and Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, San Francisco Public Library, Aug. 08

Tuning the qin ready to play, San Francisco Public Library, 08

Display of Peach Blossom Pavilion together with pianist Lang Lang's biography Journey of a Thousand Miles and famous Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's After Dark. Kinokuniya Book Store, San Francisco, 08.

Display of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Chinese Children's Favorite Stories at Borders, Saratoga Springs, New York, Aug 23, 08.

Display of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Chinese Children's Favorite Stories at Borders, Saratoga Springs, New York, Aug 23, 08.
 

Qin Music


At Greenwich Music School,
New York City 2007

At Wooster Art Space Gallery,
New York City, 2007

with students, Chinese Music Research Institute, Beijing 2006

with students, Chinese Music Research Institute, Beijing 2006

Playing the qin to accompany flower arrangement and tea ceremony, Tzu Chi Foundation, New York, 2007.

Playing the qin to accompany flower arrangement and tea ceremony, Tzu Chi Foundation, New York, 2007.

Singing qin song to the accompaniment of flute (Mr. Dai Shuhong) and qin, Jinyu Qin Society, Shanghai, 2007

Jinyu Qin Society, Shanghai, 2007

With Buddha looking over my shoulder, Buddhist Cultural Center, Cambridge, MA, 2007

Blessed with Buddhist gifts, Buddhist Cultural Center, Cambridge, MA, 2007

With qin master and connoisseur Zheng Minzhong, Beijing, 2006

With qin master Cheng Gongliang, Chengdu, 2006

After my talk at the China Music Institute, with professor Wu Wenguang, Beijing, 2006

Listening to qin master and qin connoiseur Zhen Minzhong play, Beijing, 2005
 
     

Calligraphy

   

with students, City University of New York, 2008

with students, City University of New York, 2008

demonstrating calligraphy, Tzu Chi Foundation, New York City, 2007

Geoffrey and I displaying our calligraphy, Tzu Chi Foundation, New York City, 2007

Performing calligraphy, Tzu Chi Foundation, New York, 2007

with Tzu Chi Foundation members, New York, 2007

With professor Wang Haiyan and students, after giving the lecture/demonstration on "Qin Music and Calligraphy" On the table is my Heart Sutra calligraphy. Tai Wan National University, Taipei, 2007

Demonstrating calligraphy at Tai Wan National University, Taipei, 2007

Geoffrey showing his calligraphy, North America Qin Society, 2007.

Teaching calligraphy at City University of New York, 2008.
   
     

Storytelling

   

T shirt designed by me for Families with Children from China

Little fans holding my book Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, at Families with Children from China camp, 2006

Selling my Chinese Children's Favorite Stories at International Women Writer's Conference, 2007

With little fans at storytelling event, Seaward Park Public Library, New York City, 09

Littlest fan too shy to come in the lecture hall, storytelling at Seaward Park Public Library, New York City, 09
 
     

Taichi

   

Desert in Duang Huang, Silk Road, China