Auteur : Grégoire Bienvenu
Well, I just wrote to my PhD director saying “I’m done with music and Covid-19, I think it’s time to close this chapter and develop other ideas …” but suddenly one thought kept me away from sleeping. The resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the city of Xian has been very...
On Thursday 1st of July 2021, the Communist Party of China turned 100 and, to mark the occasion, the whole People’s Republic morphed into a mass celebration of the world’s biggest political party’s Shanghai founding event. A few days prior to the launching of official celebrations and Xi Jinping’s speech...
This article has been published in the pages of China Perspective (2021/1), a French peer-reviewed academic journal. To read it fully, please visit the journal’s website. “It’s for the soldiers fighting in the hospitals all nightThanks for the lanterns lighting up the dark” — AR ft. Q.luv The “ad hoc...
From the sandy streets of Urumqi to the capital of Sichuan, Uyghur rappers also got something to say. Here’s a humble attempt to gather information and archives about Xinjiang hip-hop in Chengdu and make this music accessible to the wider community.
Music in China is like a deep bowl of spicy hotpot: once you start digging your chopsticks in, you’re never sure what you’re going to catch. On the first try, you might get some bites of Cui Jian (崔健), the ancient sacred rocker who defied the regime by playing guitar...