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  2. Cantopop - Wikipedia

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    Western-influenced music first came to China in the 1920s, specifically through Shanghai. [7] Artists like Zhou Xuan (周璇) acted in films and recorded popular songs.. When the People's Republic of China was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, one of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce pop music (specifically Western pop) as decadent music. [7]

  3. Hokkien pop - Wikipedia

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    Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.

  4. List of Taiwanese singers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Taiwanese singers in alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  5. Campus folk song - Wikipedia

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    The genre was highly popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, with its focus on themes from the Chinese cultural sphere in reaction to the prevalence of Western rock music in Taiwan as well as being edged out by the People's Republic of China from the United Nations and from the world political stage. [1]

  6. Sarah Chen - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Chen or Chen Shu-hua (traditional Chinese: 陳淑樺; simplified Chinese: 陈淑桦; pinyin: Chén Shúhuà; born 14 May 1958) is a Taiwanese singer [1] who was active from the 1970s to the late 1990s.

  7. Mandopop - Wikipedia

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    Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music.The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. [1] "

  8. Teresa Teng singles discography - Wikipedia

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    The discography of Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng contains over 70 studio albums recorded in multiple languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and Japanese. Many of her singles have been recorded in both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese with different titles.

  9. Tomorrow Will Be Better - Wikipedia

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    "Tomorrow Will Be Better" (Chinese: 明天會更好; pinyin: Míngtiān huì Gènghǎo) is a Taiwanese Mandopop charity record written by Lo Ta-yu and sung by over 60 artists. It was recorded on 15 September 1985 and released on 25 October 1985 in order to raise money for World Vision International to help with aid to Africa.