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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.
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.
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 ...
Meanwhile, the “democratization” of Chinese pop music accelerated with the rise of short-video apps like Douyin, the mainland Chinese version of TikTok. A 2021 survey found that, in December 2020, ...
“In the early 1980s, pop songs from Hong Kong were very popular in mainland China,” music writer Wen Huang told the Indiana Times in 2016, “and after the concert, college students and people ...
A K-pop group is set to perform in mainland China later this month after a nine-year hiatus, sparking renewed discussions over potentially warming ties between Beijing and its U.S.-allied neighbor.
China started to restrict the distribution of Korean music, movies, dramas, games and all other forms of pop culture in 2016 in retaliation to South Korea’s deployment of U.S. THAAD missile ...
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.