Comments on: Chinese Solution to Riots in Tibet

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:00:16 +0000

Oh, sure, there is a nostaglic kitsch to those songs, especially among young people, but there was nothing kitsch about the Tibetan woman’s performance, and likewise, there will be nothing kitsch about the planned re-education of Tibetan monks, the topic of this thread.

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:35:55 +0000

The music sounds like someone fucking a cat.

By: Nkmonitor

Nkmonitor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:26:22 +0000

Of course they’re still sung. But these days the kitsch factor outweighs any ideological value the songs have. Most of the younger generations sing them in the same nudge-nudge-wink-wink manner in which we’d sing the Brady Bunch theme song. For proof of the de-ideologicalization of patriotic songs, look no further than immense popularity of internet sensation Hong Laowai. Here he is singing “Yonghu Gongchan Dang:”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVcaIZCSAc

By: wjk, 검은 머리 외국인

wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:58:07 +0000

I don’t think I like Jing as a human being.

Do you enjoy some old hag singing about Hitler?

Stalin?

Mao is the same.

Close to a billion people in east Asia has been fucked over by this fucking ugly asshole’s ideals.

I hate Mao zedong. This asshole is the reason why Kim Il Sung survived and North Korea still exists as a buffer state for China.

You Chinese people will see blood one day.

Sending crap aid in exchange for mortgaging North Korea’s resources? With 99% of the PRC population thinking it’s free aid?

Keeping Kim Jong Il alive and on a dog leash?

It’s comparably as evil as Hitler, Stalin, etc.

All of the above are fuck heads.

By: Jing

Jing — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:01:50 +0000

For Chairman Mao’s Greatest Hits, click here.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Va.....25697.html

The song you are looking for is track 9.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:43:04 +0000

@#5

Yes, I’m sure there’s a way to upload sound files. I’ll look into it this weekend.

As for my generation, gosh, no, I’m not that old. I bought the CDs because I was inspired by the song titles.

Gee, thanks, Nkmonitor, for the accuracy corrections. I only lived in China four years, *sarcasm on* so I didn’t know that violent struggle sessions didn’t exist anymore, and I’m sure most Marmot readers didn’t either.*sarcasm off* And BTW, those silly propaganda songs are still sung. During National Day celebrations on October 1, an ethnic Tibetan woman living in my city was trussed up in traditional costume and trotted out in front of the TV camera to sing that “Daughters of the Same Mother” song.

By: bumfromkorea

bumfromkorea — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:57:24 +0000

correction… and was in *Lhasa

By: bumfromkorea

bumfromkorea — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:56:38 +0000

Economist’s correspondent is in Tibet at the moment. By an incredible luck, the correspondent got the permission to be in Lhasa (and was in Lhana) the day before riot broke out.

http://www.economist.com/world.....d=10875823

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:58:42 +0000

Additionally, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to put control all information regarding their failed policies and actions by keeping out all non-Chinese press and naturally they control all Chinese press so there is no impartial record of the current events in the south of China or Tibet. John Kennedy of Globalvoices has also made note of the virulent trolling of Chinese netizens who claim that Western media is anti-Chinese and unfair.

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:59:31 +0000

Sonagi,

You’ve got me drooling over your CD collection. I’d love to hear “Yanbian Folks Love Chairman Mao”. Any way to post an MP3 file somewhere so I can here it?

You must have been a serious student of Chinese at some point, and I think maybe I can guess the era…