{"id":19207,"date":"2008-04-11T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/04\/lhasa-riot-rage-rendered-in-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T04:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T11:21:02","slug":"lhasa-riot-rage-rendered-in-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/04\/lhasa-riot-rage-rendered-in-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Lhasa Riot Rage Rendered in Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/00e0b0e9d251096663050f.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"66\" alt=\"Dragon Roar\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/>Chinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media&#8217;s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. Entitled &#8220;Dragon&#8217;s Roar&#8221; (\u9f99\u54ee), the song and an accompanying video have been circulating widely around the Chinese internet, getting play on blog pages run by such state-media heavyweights as CCTV and the China Daily (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pekingduck.org\/archives\/004893.php\">h\/t Peking Duck<\/a>). &#8220;Rage led to me knock out this song in a few days,&#8221; O.Z. (or \u6b27\u5b50, said to be a Chinese student in France), writes in an introduction. &#8220;Brothers and sisters unite and shout with the roar the Eastern Tigers!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Set to a mixture of footage from the riots with old video of China&#8217;s &#8220;peaceful liberation&#8221; of Tibet in the late 1950&#8217;s, the lyrics repeat many of the same sentiments expressed by China&#8217;s angry youth (\u6124\u9752, fengqing) in online forums. &#8220;When the new government controlled this land 56 ethnic groups were treated as equals,&#8221; OZ sings over grain images of Mao Zedong participating in a Tibetan welcome ceremony. &#8220;Developing Tibet is our common goal and responsibility.&#8221; Elsewhere the video plays images of the Dalai Lama while the lyrics slam people &#8220;using the mask of a &#8216;peaceful&#8217; fight for freedom to achieve alternate goals.&#8221; A Chinese statement in the opening credits proclaims the song as being directed against Tibetan independence, translated into English as &#8220;against violent Tibetan terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video (with subtitles) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodone.com\/vodplayer\/content\/136101.shtml\">from Vodone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"_mainPlayer\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0\" width=\"422\" height=\"355\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vodone.com\/js\/player\/videoPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"contentid=136101&#038;autoplay=false\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed name=\"_mainPlayer\" width=\"422\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vodone.com\/js\/player\/videoPlayer.swf\" wmode=\"\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" FlashVars=\"contentid=136101&#038;autoplay=false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>See the Chinese lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/tw.streetvoice.com\/music\/user-song.asp?au=38662\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media&#8217;s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. 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