Sixth Tone

The Music Teacher Who Rewrote the Rules of Chinese Pop

In early 20th-century Shanghai, jazz was made by composers, performers, and bandleaders from across Asia and beyond. This is the first article in a four-part series tracing how that sound took shape, ...
Sixth Tone

Street Angels: Meet the Women Who Became China’s First Pop Stars

In early 20th-century Shanghai, jazz was made by composers, performers, and bandleaders from across Asia and beyond. This is the third article in a four-part series tracing how that sound took shape, ...
Yahoo

China's K-pop worries: The reasons why a ban on Korean entertainment has lasted a decade

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tian Xin, a BTS fan from Gansu province, China, poses for a photo with handheld fans featuring BTS member Jung Kook, ahead of ...
NBC New York

China warms up to K-pop as it pursues cultural diplomacy, strives to boost consumption amid trade worries

Locked in a trade war with the United States and struggling with weak domestic consumption, China looks set to make a U-turn on an unlikely sector: K-pop. It was announced on April 28 that K-pop group ...
The Diplomat

‘The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop’ Sings One Last Encore From Beyond the Grave

Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng performing at a concert in Lincoln Center, New York, the U.S., July 1980. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Teresa Teng Foundation Several years ago, an employee at Universal ...