2006年9月我应美国哥伦比亚大学邀请赴美担任访问学者,研究课题是“琵琶与中国文学”。而对我来说,这仅仅是我的课业,我真正感兴趣的是在一个更为宽广的、国际化的视野中,考虑中国民族音乐的前景。我知道,获得这样一种视野,必须走出去,必须接触更多的同行,必须了解西方音乐。国内民乐界实际上存在着两个让人忧虑的倾向。 In September 2006, I invited a visiting professor from the United States Columbia University to visit the United States. The research topic is “Pipa and Chinese Literature.” To me, this is just my homework. What I am really interested in is thinking about the future of Chinese folk music in a broader and more international perspective. I know that to obtain such a vision, we must go out, we must contact more colleagues, we must understand Western music. There are actually two worrisome tendencies in the domestic folk music community.