From Reuters.co.uk: Yang Chengang was a music teacher by day and lounge singer by night in central China’s Hubei province when one day three years ago a friend suggested putting one of his songs on the Internet. Fast forward to 2005, when Yang and his song, “Mice Love Rice,” have become two of the hottest […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Andante.com: The Nuremberg State Theatre is to introduce Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen to music lovers at the Eighth Beijing Music Festival.… Yu Long, artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, said: “This is a historic moment for Asia.” Yu is proud to be able to present […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph.co.uk: Tens of thousands of Chinese web surfers have been introduced to a new internet craze by the country’s notorious online sex diarist, a writer known as Muzimei. As if running her intimate weblog describing her promiscuous encounters with more than 140 strangers were not enough, 27-year-old Li Li has now gone one step […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China’s Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. “It has unfolded a new chapter in my life,” she says, adding that she can hardly imagine living without the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In an artistic “war room” in the Kennedy Center, anxious staff members were leafing through signs directing artists to “stage right” and elsewhere in Chinese. Down the hall, hundreds of packages of instant noodles lined the walls of a rehearsal space, quick comfort food for performers who don’t eat granola […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: At first glance, the new rules handed down by China’s broadcasting authority seemed natural enough in a country where the Communist Party feels duty-bound to set the tone for everything, even pop music. Masters of ceremony on state television’s seemingly endless roster of variety shows, the regulations said, should avoid vulgarity, […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: China’s godfather of electric rock Cui Jian assaulted Beijing late Saturday with his loud and angry wall of sound in his first officially sanctioned concert in the capital in 12 years. Some 10,000 fans gathered in the Capital Gymnasium to hear the 44 year-old perform the latest versions of his songs, many […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China’s runaway summer hit, “Super Girl,” ended last weekend with a television viewership that eclipsed the combined populations of the United States and Canada. State news media reported that more than 400 million people had watched the finale of the show, an “American Idol” knockoff, and saw a frizzy-haired music […]
Read MoreFrom The San Francisco Chronicle: All around this orderly, law-abiding country, people are being urged to do what until now has seemed totally unnatural: Take risks! Be spontaneous! Be creative! On billboard ads, young models with devil-may-care looks jump ecstatically in midair to hawk clothing, sodas and real-estate developments. Banks sponsor blogger competitions and art […]
Read MoreFrom The Spiked: From his victory over the nationalist Kuomintang in 1949 to his death in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Tse-tung has exercised a morbid grip over the imagination of the Western intelligentsia. Just released on DVD is French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1), a bizarre but fascinating […]
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