China, which has never officially acknowledged the ban, has more confidence in its own entertainment now and is looking to boost consumer spending, experts say.

The Rise and Fall of Taiwanese Music in Mainland China. Taiwan’s pop music export wave started in the 1980s when Teresa Teng swept mainland China by storm.

With more than 30 million YouTube views, the song “Fragile” has done something previously unthinkable — become a commercial success while sending up China’s authoritarian leaders.

Song, then 29 years old and a former product security employee at a manufacturing company, was among 35 Taiwanese appointed that year to jobs on the lower rungs of the mainland government system.

KINMEN, Taiwan — Back in the 1970s, Tian Liyun could not travel to China's mainland, but her voice could. She was among a crew of Taiwanese broadcasters who took turns trying to cajole listeners ...

Wang is part of a generation of young people who grew up in mainland China with Taiwanese pop music and television dramas, but unlike most of his peers, he can travel to the island.

Never shy of controversy, pop diva Madonna pulled a similar stunt, wrapping herself in the island’s flag at her first Taiwan concert in 2016, angering – and alienating – fans in mainland China.

BEFORE THE tear gas and the rubber bullets, there was music. At the protests in Hong Kong over the past week, people have regularly broken into song. For those gathered outside government ...

Before the ban, China — the second-biggest music market in Asia after Japan — was one of the fastest-growing markets for K-pop and other South Korean pop culture, whose rapid rise in global ...

Song, then 29 years old and a former product security employee at a manufacturing company, was among 35 Taiwanese appointed that year to jobs on the lower rungs of the mainland government system.