The music of Du Yun, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017, is difficult to classify, including aspects of, to quote her own website, "orchestral , opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, pop music, oral tradition, visual arts, electronics and noise." She also does not readily conform to description as Chinese or American. Du was born in Shanghai on June 18, 1977. Her musical education coincided with the rebuilding of Western-influenced institutions in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution