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MUSIC

How Joanna Wang Redefines Mandopop in the TikTok Age

Fourteen years after debuting with a cover album, the singer-songwriter stays relevant to Gen Z with eclectic sounds and experimentation

By Asian Pop Weekly   May 11, 2022
MUSIC

Rainbow Chan’s Love Song to Cantopop

Rainbow Chan remembers the beauty and cheese of the golden age of Canto and Mandopop, acknowledging its mark on her identity while also stamping it with her own

By Asian Pop Weekly   February 13, 2022
MUSIC

JIHU Bridges East and West with Contemporary R&B

Rising singer-songwriter fuses Yi language, Han lyricism, and sounds of nature in new single

By Terence Hsieh (谢燕辉)   August 21, 2021
TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Regional Harmonies

China and Southeast Asia have adapted many of each other’s pop hits

By Tina Xu (徐盈盈)   March 31, 2020
IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Musical Phrasing

Sayings about music, good and bad

By Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)   June 19, 2019
Subscriber Exclusive
ARTS, MODERN HISTORY

Sound of a Century

A singular museum in north China offers a rare insight into its musical history

By Lu Dan   August 12, 2018
TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Class Notes

The many songs at the start and end of classes at Chinese schools

By Alexander Cecil McNab   November 28, 2017
NEWS

The Viral Week That Was: Ep 107

World’s dopiest thief, a teacher-student slapfest, a firefighter’s race: It’s Viral Week

By Ethan Yun   April 17, 2017
NEWS

Have You Eaten Yet?

Greetings sent in Chinese to outer space on 1977 Voyager missions

By Jose Bernardo Reyes Facio   March 13, 2017
PHOTO STORY

Hangzhou by Moonlight

T he city of poets is alive and well after the sun goes down

By Xu Ting   August 11, 2016
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