一個史無前例的歷史回憶 （An Unprecedented Historical Recollection）

大家好，

   附件是我最近收到的一個真實的故事，而且是半個世紀前和我、一批洋學生、台灣和美國相關的真實故事。作者是1970年代我在美國北伊利諾州大學的音樂系學生Liese Bender. 當年她是我最早開啟北伊大的世界音樂中心的學生之一，隨著我帶著他們「東征西伐」，甚至越洋到達香港和台灣，又碰上斷交的外交歷史事件，高潮迭起，很有故事性。而從她這位當年二十歲出頭的美國女孩來報導和形容，更有另一番風味，所以和大家共享。她曾經兩度到肯塔基大學參加王朱凱薇（Cecilia Chu Wang）老師主辦的著名的奧福樂教訓練（Orff Workshop）, 也專程和先生來看過我們。附件中的照片都是她拍攝或留存的，最後幾幀和該事件無關。

韓國鐄 & 徐宛中。

2025/8/15.

Hello everyone,

Attached is a true story I recently received—an account from half a century ago involving me, a group of American students, Taiwan, and the United States. The author, Liese Bender, was one of my music students at Northern Illinois University in the 1970s and among the first who helped me launch NIU’s Center for World Music. We traveled far and wide—even across the ocean to Hong Kong and Taiwan—and happened to witness a watershed moment in diplomatic history when relations were severed. The journey was full of twists and turns, and from the perspective of a young American woman in her early twenties, it reads with a special flavor, which is why I’m sharing it with you.

Liese later attended Professor Cecilia Chu Wang’s renowned Orff Workshops at the University of Kentucky twice, and she and her husband also visited us. All photos in the attachment were taken or kept by her; the last few are unrelated to the incident.

Han Kuo-Huang & Hsu Wanzhong
August 15, 2025