Connecticut College China Yunnan/Mekong Project

This project is part of a broad-based, multi-faceted, multi-year program to research, support and present the cultural traditions of Yunnan (pronounced Yün-NAAN) Province in China and the Mekong (pronounced May-GOONG) countries; and to connect these traditions to American audiences.

The Mekong region — one of the most culturally diverse places in the world — includes parts of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Yunnan Province of China.

The project includes:

• The 2004 conference "Yunnan China: Cultural Connections Along the Mekong" which took place at Connecticut College


• Fall, 2005, U.S. one-month tour "Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and dance from China's Land of Clouds"


• 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program on the cultures of the Mekong region, "Mekong River: Connecting Cultures," taking place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. from June 27- July 1 and July 4-8, 2007.