Written by Rachel Harris Beginning in 2017, news began to leak out from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the construction of a huge, secretive network of detention camps, dubbed “transformation through education centres” in official Chinese sources. Overseas journalists…
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Written by Nathanel Amar The production of posters and graphics is an essential component of underground musical communities. It helps create a shared visual identity that people will immediately recognize (the practice of punk collage for instance, derived from the…
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By Anna Morcom In today’s Tibet, popular music is showcased vigorously by the state on television and in festivals, and in fact, popular music emerged in Tibet from state institutions. At the same time, it is widely seen as subversive…
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By Yiu-Wai Chu “Music, like identity, is both performance and story,” argued by Simon Frith in his often cited essay “Music and Identity”: it “describes the social in the individual and the individual in the social.” In the context of…
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By Sheng Zou As nationalist sentiment climaxed in Mainland China in the wake of the Hong Kong protests and amid the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, new life has been breathed into a number…
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By Editor In our third issue, we discuss music, identity and community in contemporary China. We asked our contributors to reflect on recent trends, genres, and the politics of music production and consumption as it plays out across cultural spaces…
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