# Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo

TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer improving US-China relations -- until she picked up a banjo. She tells a moving story of the remarkable connections she's formed touring across the United States and China while playing that banjo and singing in Chinese.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 6 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AbigailWashburn_2012)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/AbigailWashburn_2012?play=1)