Editor’s Note: Abigail Washburn is a singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player and recording artist who performs in English and Chinese. She spoke at the TED2012 conference in March. TED is a ...
The Song dynasty in China (960-1279) is like the Renaissance in Italy, or the Second Empire in France, or the 1960s in America — it was the age when China became Chinese, when all the disparate ...
Reporting from china — For Chinese musicians, topics like flatulence, Taiwanese girls and suicide are out. Songs that respect so-called “social morality” are in. Or else. China’s Ministry of Culture ...
In this video, I break down the Bing Chilling Song, translating its catchy lyrics and explaining the pinyin pronunciation for ...
Despite a narrow FIBA Asian Cup title miss after a one-point defeat to Australian in the final on Sunday, the whole stadium of Chinese fans in Saudi Arabia sang Ode to the Motherland in ...
Did Disney’s fictional snow queen of Arendelle help Beijing win its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics? Some Chinese Internet users seem to think so. They find “The Snow and Ice Dance,” one of the ...