Chaos of Cultural Revolution Echoes 50 Years Later
This May marks the 50th anniversary of the start of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural...
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LatestISIS Extends Recruitment to China With Mandarin Chant
In a rare effort to recruit Chinese Muslims, the Islamic State recently released a chant sung...
“Laundry Song”: a Tibetan Red Song
High Peaks Pure Earth embarks on a new series on Tibetan “Red Songs”, beginning with 1964’s “Laundry Song”, which has been performed by “almost every mainstream Tibetan female singer …...
Music Series: Abigail Washburn’s Musical Inspiration from China (Updated)
Banjo player and singer Abigail Washburn, from Illinois, had a chance to go to Chengdu, China, in 1996 and challenged herself to learn Chinese and local operas. Thereafter, she combined the roots of American music with Chinese...
Music Series: “You Owe Me My Wages” and “Migrant Workers’ Blood and Sweat – Asking for Unpaid Wages”
The following song “You Owe Me My Wages” was composed and sung by Shi Yong, an Internet musician, after he saw many posts about migrant workers asking for their back wages. Shi said that he wanted to stand up for the weak....
Video: Super Imitation–One Has a Dozen Voices
A heated online discussion has been sparked by a netizen who calls himself First Genius (首席才子) and posted a video in which he imitates voices of 19 male pop stars from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This is the second wave of such...
Song: Jangle for the Jobless
Beijing-based poet and folk singer Zhou Funpeng, 周云蓬, 38, has penned the following song, The Unemployed (失业者), a mournful ballad representing the people left behind in urban China’s sprint towards prosperity. Listen here...
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