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Corruption at China’s Top Classical Music Academies
At That’s Beijing (via James Palmer), James Tiscione recently described allegations of...
Read MoreSecret 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...
Read MoreMusic Video Honors Tibetan Self-Immolators
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the music video for “Patriotic Martyrs,” by Tibetan musician Jampel: “Patriotic Martyrs” By Jampel from HPeaks on Vimeo. High Peaks Pure Earth’s accompanying...
Read MoreClassical Music with Chinese Characteristics
While John Garnaut focuses on Xi Jinping’s former study group of “Second Generation Reds”, Sheila Melvin at ChinaFile looks at another gathering of China’s political elite: the short-lived Three Highs...
Read MoreWu Man on Making Music from the Borderlands
The Huffington Post interviews pipa player Wu Man, whose new CD explores the origins of her instrument, Central Asia. On the CD, Borderlands: Wu Man and the Master Musicians of the Silk Route, she performs with two Uygur...
Read MoreBest of the Worst: 2011 Music Video
“Oh, China! Slow down!” (祖国啊你慢些走) appeared on the overseas Chinese portal 6Park in August 2011, and has spread all over Chinese Internet. Minus the tragedies of Xiao Yueyue and the school bus crash, it packs in all...
Read MoreMusic Video: Chuanzi (川子): Zheng Qianhua (郑钱花)
Singer Chuanzi (real name 姜亚川 Jiang Yachuan) was once a troubled teenager and was imprisoned for assault when he was 18 years old. After being released from jail at the age of 25, he tried to reconnect with his old friends, but...
Read MoreMusic Video: People of July － By Chuanzi (川子)
What happened in Chinese cyberspace around the tragic high-speed rail crash last month was a milestone in the rising power of the Internet in China. The apparent government cover-up, the ruthless treatment of victims...
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