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Sun Wen-yan is born in Shanghai in 1940. She is the daughter of the
famous folk musician Sun Yude. Sun started studying folk music at a
very young age. In 1955, she passed the entrance exam of the affiliated
middle school of Shanghai Conservatory of music majoring in guzheng.
In 1959, she continued her guzheng learning in Shanghai Conservatory
of Music following Master Wang Zhuangzhi of the Zhejiang school. She
has also learned from Cao Zheng, Ren Qingzhi, Gao Zhicheng, Guo
Yin, Wang Shingwu, and Lin Maogen. She graduated in 1965 and
stayed at Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a professional educator.
She co-publishes many textbooks with her husband He Baoquan and
has written near 10 essays on guzheng.
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