Danwei’s Alice Xin Liu writes on Huffington Post: It was the first day of summer in Beijing. It also happened to be the May holiday, when Chinese people had three days off in honor of International Workers’ Day....
Read MoreChina Daily profiles filmmaker Zhang Yuan, whose work has often been banned inside China: After shooting the first music video for Chinese rock ‘n’ roll godfather Cui Jian, he made Beijing Bastards in 1994, which was...
Read MoreAn oil painting of 100 historical personages is one of the Internet’s newest sensations. Figures ranging from Fidel Castro to Shirley Temple are depicted in the large-scale 20′ x 8.5′ (6m x 2.6m) work entitled...
Read MoreThis early spring I went to work at a private school The school is in a remote suburb Every morning I have to get up early to take a bus It is still dark Street lights are sleeping in the slow wind The streets seem cleaner than...
Read MoreFrom VOA News: For the third year in a row, the Beijing Pop Festival attracted thousands of music lovers to the Chinese capital. But this year was different. Anti-establishment bands from the West played alongside controversial local rocker Cui Jian — whose songs became anthems to the 1989 student movement. It was a rare opportunity […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Thousands of Chinese music fans flocked to a park in Beijing this weekend to see some of the West’s most subversive bands, who infused the annual Pop Festival with serious rock-and-roll attitude. Crowds were expected to swell on Sunday for shows by anti-establishment industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails and China’s political bad boy […]
Read MoreChina Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the only major broadcast television network in China. It is a totally state-controlled television service. Organizationally, it is sub-ministry of the People’s Republic of China’s central government within the State Administration of Radio, Television, and Film. Its news reporting follows parameters directed by the Propaganda Department of […]
Read MoreFrom Sina: The 6-day China Rock’n’roll Concert(‰∏≠ÂõΩÊëáʪö§߉ºö) started from Oct 1st at Zengcheng(¢ûÂüé) in Guangzhou. Approximately 30 bands from the Mainland, HongKongand Taiwan and 150,000 came. It is the most successful and the longest Rock’n’roll concert in South China. Many well-known bands performed and the audiences showed more interests to new bands. Well-known bands/singers: Zero […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): After nearly 30 years of trying, the world’s most famous rock band finally made it to the world’s most populous country, as the Rolling Stones brought their show to a small stage in China’s biggest city. Even if the Stones can’t always sing what they want, they still bring […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via China Daily (link): The face of Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock and roll, graced the cover of the first Chinese edition of the classic American rock and roll magazine, Rolling Stone. The venerable bible of pop culture launched its Chinese edition this month focusing on Asia’s emerging youth culture, while […]
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