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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largely coaxed the Chinese into mass song is now in the U.S. A small, lean-faced Y.M.C.A. man named Liu Liang-mo, he is studying at the University of Pennsylvania and Crozer Theological Seminary. At the University of Shanghai, cheerleading at basketball games convinced him that mass singing was a morale build er. In 1935 Mr. Liu, by then a Y.M.C.A. secretary, formed a chorus of 60 poor Chinese, taught them to sing Save, Save, Save China to the tune of another round, Row, Row, Row Your Boat. The Y.M.C.A. sent Mr. Liu throughout China, and finally the Government adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Save, Save, Save China | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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