His scholarly efforts have focused on the music of Central Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, attending to issues of musical modernization, minority identification, and cosmopolitan belongings. He has conducted ethnographic research on traditional and popular music of the Uyghur, Central Asian Turkic-speaking Muslims who live for the most part in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. In addition to Central Asian music, Wong maintains a strong scholarly interest in various Chinese traditions, particularly the seven-string zither ch’in (or qin), of which he is a performer. EDUCATION:B.A., M. Phil., Chinese University of Hong KongPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles