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Censors Delete Viral “Kong Yiji Literature” Anthem

Every movement needs its anthem. In the now-censored musical parody “Sunny Side Kong Yiji,” the emergent “Kong Yiji literature” wave seems to have found one of its own. “Kong Yiji literature” is a genre of self-deprecating...

“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 …...

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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