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  2. Music of China - Wikipedia

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    The beginning of the 21st century has seen an increasing number of mainland Chinese artists who produced a wide range of Mandarin pop songs and the release of many new albums. However, despite having a much larger population and increasing consumption of Chinese pop music, China is not yet considered a major production hub of pop music. [45]

  3. Gufeng music - Wikipedia

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    Students wearing Hanfu and playing Gufeng music. Gufeng music (traditional Chinese: 古風 音樂; simplified Chinese: 古风 音乐; pinyin: gǔfēng yīnyuè; Jyutping: gu2 fung1 jam1ngok6) is a type of music genre by artists originating from the Greater China region, It is a kind of C-pop music with the background of Chinese legends, the style of Chinese folk songs and drama, the melody ...

  4. Culture of the Song dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Chinese literature during the Song period contained a range of many different genres and was enriched by the social complexity of the period. Although the earlier Tang dynasty is viewed as the zenith era for Chinese poetry (particularly the shi style poetry of Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi), there were important poetic developments by famous poets of the Song era, with the flourishing of the ci form ...

  5. Timeline of Chinese music - Wikipedia

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    People's Republic of China: Baak Doi leaves China in 1952 and relocates to Hong Kong. Mao Zedong and CCP evolved patriotic music into revolutionary music. Hong Kong: Continuation of Shidaiqu in Hong Kong. Republic of China / Taiwan: Development of Taiwanese mandopop. Native Hokkien pop phased out by Kuomintang in favor of mandopop.

  6. List of ensemble formations in traditional Chinese music

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    The ancient Chinese orchestra, which comprised up to several hundred or more traditional Chinese musical instruments of many types, existed from at least the Shang dynasty and performed yayue music for court rituals and sacrifices, as well as for entertainment of the court. Ancient Chinese orchestra

  7. Ritual and music system - Wikipedia

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    A 9,000 year-old bone flute from Henan. Archaeological evidence indicates that music culture developed in China from a very early period. Excavations in Jiahu Village in Wuyang County, Henan found bone flutes dated to 9,000 years ago, and clay music instruments called Xun thought to be 7,000 years old have been found in the Hemudu sites in Zhejiang and Banpo in Xi'an.

  8. How Wham! broke barriers as first Western pop act to play ...

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    Manager Simon Napier-Bell wined and dined more than 140 government officials and campaigned against rivals Queen to make global pop history, even if George Michael later said Wham!'s Beijing ...

  9. Musicians in Ming China - Wikipedia

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    Musicians under China's Ming dynasty had a diverse status, with many musicians having low social positions. At the same time, musicians could also enjoy great status, like in the case of the emperor Hongzhi who was very well known for being a proponent of music. [1]