Twenty years ago, the concept of electronic dance music was mostly foreign to China, but today, Chinese DJs are bringing their own homespun style to the turntable.
As electronic dance music booms throughout China's emergent nightclub scene, Chinese DJs are turning to the Internet to sustain their pastime.
Seventy Tibetan farmers are ready to wow audiences across the nation with their traditional country tap dance, to the accompaniment of local six-stringed musical instrument, at the upcoming CCTV New Year's Eve gala.
A year can be divided in many ways. For China's television-obsessed, a year is made up of two halves: Half the year, they deplore a certain variety show and swear they'll never watch it again, and the other half is spent anticipating the next turnout, poring over every tidbit of gossip and devouring whatever the press can spit out about it.
When Liang Heping went to British pop group Wham!'s concert in Beijing in 1985, he had never heard of the name, like most of the audience that night.
British rock legend and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters will hold his concert at the Shanghai Grand Stage on February 12. This is the third concert by a famous Western rock band or musician in Shanghai in one year, after the Rolling Stones' last April and Eric Clapton's on January 20.
Here is a brief history of concerts by Western pop musicians/groups in China:
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