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Song of the Week: Native Beijinger

Song of the Week will be a new feature highlighting a great Chinese song (or two) that we've had on our mind (or that's been burning up the charts) over the past week. In this week's edition, I'm going with the excellent pop hop song 北京土著... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Fri, Mar 06 2009

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19 May 08		A song for 8M Earthquake in Sichuan China 一首致四川大地震的作品 » YouTube videoThe song call "Where is my father" 歌名我的爹呢 Produced by Sonic This song was written by me yesterday. The quality of this music may not be very good, but it is what I can do as a Chinese. I trely hope that this song can let us think about the...
02 Feb 09		A song about Zuola the Chinese citizen blogger » Danwei From the music blog, One Weekly Gun, which posts one original song per week, commenting on world news. Danish musician Peter Fritzen has decided that the Chinese citizen blogger, Zuola, is worthy of a song this week. Lyrics include: ...
14 Jun 08		The Historical Record for June 14, 2008: Song on the run…. » Granite Studio June wasn’t an a particularly auspicious month for the Song Dynasty. Thursday marked the founding of the Southern Song after what was left of the Song court had been chased out of the north by the Jurchens. In the confusion, the Song left behind...
28 Jan 08		The Historical Record for January 28, 2007: More from the Liao and Jin, Koxinga, and the Japanese invasion of Shanghai » Granite Studio It must be Song history week here at the Granite Studio. Yesterday I wrote about Yue Fei and today it’s the Liao and the Jin. On January 28, 1005, the Song Dynasty agreed to the Chanzhou Pact with the Khitan Liao. The agreement fixed the boundary...
16 Jun 07		Taiyuan cultural authorities confused by Pangu's Olympics song » Danwei This little punk song has been circulating on Chinese video sharing sites in recent weeks (there's a version on Tudou for as long as it stays up): The band is Pangu (盘古, aka Punk God), and the song is 奥你妈的运 (called "BeijingFuckingOlympia...
05 Sep 07		China: Song on GFW » Global Voices Calon from bullog changed the lyrics of “I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio” into a song on Great Fire Wall: I bet you they won’t stop the G-F-W, I bet you they won’t show the (bleep) to you, It’s not that it’s (bleep) ...

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