Weibo Scolded Over Content Control, Trend Manipulation
Social media platform Weibo has once again been targeted by Chinese regulators for failing to...
Hip-hop
Censors Target Hip-Hop in Public Opinion Crackdown
A government order to Chinese broadcasters issued last week, along with the hasty removal of...
Minitrue: Don’t Report on Kindergarten Abuse
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Video Extols Party Slogans With Rap and Beethoven
Xinhua has released a new animated music video fusing Beethoven with hip-hop in attempt to...
Chinese President ‘Big Daddy Xi’ Makes Rap Debut
State broadcaster CCTV has released a rap music video featuring Xi Jinping—aka “Big Daddy...
Blood, Fear and Hip-Hop in Xinjiang
At ChinaFile, James Palmer mounts a wide-ranging exploration of tensions between China’s Han...
‘Pushing Boundaries With Cans of Paint’
While the Olympic themed street-art of England’s eminent and anonymous pop-cultural delinquent may soon disappear from the walls of London, Voice of America interviews graffiti artist Wang Mo on the chic and seditious...
China’s Hip-Hop Underground
Matthew Niederhauser is a documentarian who works with an array of media. He has been closely following the culture of underground music in China for some time, and published the book Sound Kapital in 2009. Asia Society posted a...
The Hundred Schools Of Thought: Underground Hip-Hop in China
New York-based artist and musician Jie-Song Zhang is writing a series of blog posts and photo galleries for National Geographic exploring the underground hip-hop movement and youth culture in China. From the first installment:...
Tavis Smiley Show in China
The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS is broadcasting from China for a week of special reports. The entire special will be rebroadcast starting August 15: For five nights, July 11-15, 2011, Tavis brings you stories from the People’s...
Brendan O’Kane: [Help], [Help], [Help] the Police!
After the New York Times published a story about the rise of Chinese hip-hop, blogger Brendan O’Kane tore the reporting apart on his blog. His post has now generated a lively conversation about the state of hip-hop, such...
Now Hip-Hop, Too, Is Made in China (Updated)
From New York Times: A week before Americans tune in to the Super Bowl, another televised mega-event will kick off on the other side of the globe. On Sunday more than half a billion people here are expected to watch the annual...
Video: China Rappers Have All the Bling But Not Much Sting
Beijing-based hip hop group, Dragon Blue Tongue, is performing in London this week for Chinese Now, a touring pre-Olympics festival celebrating Chinese culture. But the tame subjects of their songs set them apart from hip hop...
Video: ‘Hip-Hop Grannies’ Take the Stage
Grandmothers are joining cheerleaders on the stage and on the airwaves, reports Voice of America, and they call themselves “The Hip-Hop Grannies.” Wu Yi retired at the mandatory age of 55. Bored at home, she saw...
A Chinese Farmer’s Homegrown Hip Hop – Sina Blog (Updated)
Sina blog posted a performance by a farmer from Jijitan village in the northwest of China, who invented his own hip hop. He said he does not know what hip hop really is. His performance here is a result of his love for folk...
Hip-Hop in Shanghai
On YouTube, a video which, as Shanghaiist says, is “good for a few minutes of head-bobbing amusement.”
BBC:Web demo launches hip-hop in China
From BBC NEWS: A demo placed on the internet has triggered the initial success of one of China’s first hip-hop groups, Hi-Bomb. Hi-Bomb – composed of Lionel “Little Lion” and Shang Hao – rap in English, Mandarin and the Shanghainese dialect. Their success was triggered by Lionel placing a demo on the web – which […]
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