‘Once the Villages Are Gone, the Culture Is Gone’
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
Chinese music
Ruhan Jia: China’s State-Sponsored Pop Star
After the Global Times released poll results late last year showing the international perception...
The Wu-Force on Fusing the Sounds of China & the U.S.
The New York Times’ Jonathan Ansfield speaks with musicians Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch and...
Secret Folk Music Holds Firm In Badlands
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn, recently returned to China, introduces the Shaanxi folk music known as lao qiang (老腔), or “old tune”: Traditionally, Lao Qiang musicians would accompany a puppeteer, who would tell stories...
Wu Man: Tradition, on a Fresh Note
Pipa player Wu Man was recently recognized as Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. The New York Times reviews her recent performance at Symphony Space: Newly named instrumentalist of the year by Musical America, which...
Podcast: New Sounds of China
London Chinese Radio’s New Sounds of China music podcast has reached the end of its second season, hosted by music journalist and musicologist Paul Kendall and guitarist, vocalist and Beijing opera performer Hu Pan. Each...
Wu Man Takes the Pipa Down an Ancient Path
In a profile in the Los Angeles Times, pipa player Wu Man discusses her new work exploring China’s traditional music after working with contemporary composers such as Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Lou Harrison:...
Music Across the Ages, in the Hands of a Virtuosa
The Denver Post profiles pipa player Wu Man, who will be performing in Boulder tonight: Wu Man — whose two recent Grammy Award nominations follow her appointment as a 2008 United States Artists Broad Fellow — is passionate about...
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