Joseph Lam is a historian specializing in Chinese, Asian, and Asian American music. He has published and lectured widely in America, Asia, and Europe. Two of his recent publications are State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and Expressiveness, and Embracing Asian American Music as an Heuristic Device, Journal of Asian American Studies. Professor Lam is the editor of the ACMR Reports: Journal of the Association for Chinese Music Research, and president of the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, Mr. Lam taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is chair of the department of musicology and serves as Director of the Stearns Collection of Music Instruments.