Word: jianli
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...show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably it has been successful on both fronts. The recent recordings of China's foremost protest rocker, Cui Jian, whose Nothing to My Name was an anthem of the Tiananmen protests, have become more introspective and apolitical, and the Chinese rock scene has become muted...
...21st century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United...
...Jian, a writer who lives in London, is the author of Red Dust: A Path Through China (Chatto & Windus and Pantheon...
...According to Clark, whose company manages mainland rock superstar Cui Jian and six other acts, the only choice for now is to learn to live with pirates. During a recent recording session in Shenzhen with Tongue, a hard-core Xinjiang outfit, Clark takes time out to explain his company's unique approach. In China, he says, albums have to be viewed as promotions for a company's artists, not as revenue-generating products. Money is made from concerts and corporate sponsorships for acts or events. So his company stamps just enough CDs to attract the pirates' attention, who then...
...could be said that I am one of the earliest, and probably the earliest, music video producer/director in China. I didn't know anything about the industry at first, but at the time I was working with a musician friend, the composer and rock-star, Cui Jian, the Chinese counterpart of John Lennon. I was a huge fan of his music, and it was his wish that I help direct his video. I realized that the money that I made from these music videos could go toward funding my films, not a bad situation...