Yunnan Province

In 2012, Vivian Fung visited several communities in the Yunnan Province in Southwest China for ethno-musicological research to study minority music and cultures, which had inspired her Yunnan Folk Songs. Additionally, they are continuing to influence her work so by viewing these pages, you'll get a great primer into Vivian's world.

The following collection of video, photos, and articles is Vivian's archive from that research. All the locations visited on this trip are within the Honghe Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州). Honghe Hani Autonomous Prefecture is situated in the southeastern part of Yunnan Province, neighboring Kunming, the capital city of the province in the north and bordered by Yuxi, Qujing and Pu’er in the northwest, northeast and southwest. It also shares a boundary of 848 kilometers (527 miles) with Vietnam in the south.

Vivian's reasoning for publishing this archive is twofold:  first, to be able to share the videos and photos of her trip; and to increase an awareness of these minority cultures to the general audience. The minority cultures and language are facing rapid change and are being threatened by growing modernization and assimilation that is prevalent throughout China. This documentation is an attempt to preserve some of these oral histories.