China seen as music powerhouse

I am watching a six-piece Mongolian boyband dressed in gold lam suits playing folk tunes on traditional stringed instruments.

It is the first "serious music" I have experienced in China and it is on the hotel TV, airing on what I was assured was the classical music channel.

It gave me an early indication of the complexity of nailing just what the term "serious music" means in China. The Amadeus string quartet it is not.