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Zhao Nian
Tang Dynasty () is a Chinese rock band formed in 1989. They are often credited as being the first Chinese heavy metal band. Biography Singer and rhythm guitarist Ding Wu, bassist Zhang Ju, and Chinese-American guitarist Kaiser Kuo co-founded Tang Dynasty in early 1989. Kaiser left shortly after to return to the United States. Liu "Lao Wu" Yijun took his place and, according to Kaiser, went on to become China's first "guitar hero." In 1991, the band released its metal/rock version of "The Internationale" in Chinese. Tang Dynasty rose to fame with their eponymous debut album, released in December 1992. The album officially sold about 2,000,000 authentic copies throughout Asia and abroad, not counting the multitudes more of infringing copies. Their sound is part progressive rock and artistic metal and part traditional Chinese vocal technique. The lyrical poetry and musical arrangements meant to hearken back to the glorious days of ancient Chinese civilization; in particular, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the reign of king Wu Ding. Ancient historical texts such as the '' Book of Documents'' (early chapters, 11th century BC), the '' Bamboo Annals'' (c. 296 BC) and the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' (c. 91 BC) describe a Xia dynasty before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period, and Shang writings do not indicate the existence of the Xia. The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is among the world's oldest civilizations and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization. The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tribute To Teresa Teng
''A Tribute to Teresa Teng - A Rocking Farewell'' (告别的摇滚) is a tribute album released in July 1995 on Beijing-based label Bamboo Book Culture (竹书文化), shortly after Teresa Teng's death on May 8, 1995. It features ten of Teng's songs covered by several of Beijing's most well-known first-generation rock bands. The album is a sincere tribute to Teng as one of the first pop singers to be heard in China.師永剛 鄧麗君私房相冊 2005 "Q 鄧佰得回味的是,去世當年,在北京的搖滾界即為紀念鄧麗君而製作了一張《告別的搖滾》、其中有鄭鈞、唐朝、輪迴、黑豹等搖滾歌手或樂隊翻唱她的(甜蜜蜜)、(路邊的野花不要採)、(船歌)、(獨上西樓)、(酒醉的探戈)等,細細打量這些翻唱者的年齡和這些 ... Track listing Personnel Personnel as listed in the album's liner notes are: Musicians * Wu Tong - vocals (tracks 1, 4, 10); percussion (track 4), woodwinds (track 4) * Zheng Jun - vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yong (musician)
Wang Yong (王勇; Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ..., 1964) is a Chinese rock and world music musician. He trained as a guzheng player.Andreas Steen, biographical entry in editor Edward L. Davis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture 2012 " 1964, Beijing Rock musician Wang Yong belongs to the first generation of Chinese rock musicians in the PRC and is now active in the broader field of worldmusic. He began learning the 24string guzheng (zither, see zheng) at age nine under ... In 1996 he issued his best-known album ''Samsara'' (往生). References 1964 births Living people Chinese rock musicians Musicians from Beijing Date of birth missing (living people) {{China-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sina Weibo
Sina Weibo (新浪微博) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022. The platform has been a huge financial success, with surging stocks, lucrative advertising sales and high revenue and total earnings per quarter. At the start of 2018, it surpassed the US$30 billion market valuation mark for the first time. In March 2014, Sina Corporation announced a spinoff of Sina Weibo as a separate entity called simply "Weibo", and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with Alibaba owning 32% post-IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorn (Tang Dynasty Album)
''Thorn'' (Chinese: 芒刺; pinyin: ''Mángcì'') is the fourth studio album by seminal Chinese progressive metal band Tang Dynasty, released on November 8, 2013. Composition, themes, and recording The album title comes from a Book of Han proverb "Thorn on one's back" (), referring to a constant feeling of anxiety or unease. The band believed this idiom reflected both their own feelings during the album's creation, as well as the situation of every Chinese person alive in the modern world. The album's unifying concepts were world peace World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth. Different cultures, religions, philosophies, and organizations have varying concepts on how such a state would ... and Environmentalism, environmental preservation; many of the song titles contain references to animals or plants. ''Thorn'' took almost three years to record, with frontman Ding Wu overseeing ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Metal
''Global Metal'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Scot McFadyen and Canadian anthropologist Sam Dunn. It is a follow-up to their successful 2005 documentary, '' Metal: A Headbanger's Journey''. The film's international premiere took place at the Bergen International Film Festival on 17 October 2007. ''Global Metal'' aims to show the impact of globalization on the heavy metal underground as well as how different people from different cultures are transforming heavy metal music. Interviews As in ''Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'', most of the information in the film comes in the form of interviews: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil Non musicians * Claudia Azevedo, University of Rio de Janeiro * Eric de Haas, Rock Hard Brazil * Toninho, Sepultura fan club Tokyo, Japan Non musicians * Masa Itoh, Rock City TV * Katsuya Minamida, Kobe University Mumbai and Bangalore, India Non musicians * Atul Sharma, MetalIndia.net Beijing, China Non musicians * Wang Xiao, 666 Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Dunn
Sam Dunn (born 20 March 1974) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, musician, and anthropologist, best known for his series of documentaries on heavy metal music. He co-owns Toronto-based production company Banger Films with Scot McFadyen. Dunn holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Victoria and a master's degree from York University where his thesis work focused on Guatemalan refugees. Dunn's first documentary film, '' Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'', won a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary. His additional credits include the Grammy-nominated '' Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage'' and '' Super Duper Alice Cooper'', winner of Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Dunn co-directed and hosted the biggest-ever TV series on the history of heavy metal, '' Metal Evolution'', which reached #1 on VH1 Classic (USA) and M3 (Canada), and most-recently co-directed the Netflix original series Hip-Hop Evolution which has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Express
''Culture Express'' is an English-language program broadcast on CCTV News, a Chinese state television State media or government media are media outlets that are under financial and/or editorial control of the state or government, directly or indirectly. There are different types of state and government media. State-controlled or state-run media a ... channel. The program provides coverage of entertainment events happening mostly in China, such as music and dance festivals, but also covers events worldwide and in the U.S., such as premieres of major American motion pictures. The program is hosted by Ji Xiaojun, Julian Waghann or Jennifer Hsiung. It broadcasts daily at 17:30 BJT and rebroadcasts daily at 23:30 BJT. External links Official site Chinese television shows China Central Television 2010s Chinese television series {{nonfiction-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Ching
The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000750), the ''I Ching'' was transformed over the course of the Warring States and early imperial periods (500200) into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the " Ten Wings". After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the ''I Ching'' was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of East Asian philosophical thought. As a divination text, the ''I Ching'' is used for a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy known as ''I Ching'' divination, in which bundles of yarrow stalks are manipulated to produce sets of six apparently random numbers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youxia
''Youxia'' () was a type of ancient Chinese warrior folk hero celebrated in classical Chinese poetry and fictional literature. It literally means "wandering vigilante", but is commonly translated as "knight-errant" or less commonly as "cavalier", "adventurer", "soldier of fortune" or "underworld stalwart". Background Of the two characters of the term, ''yóu'' (遊) literally means to "wander", "travel" or "move around", and ''xiá'' (俠) means someone with power who helps others in need. The term refers to the way these men solely travelled the land using physical force or political influence to right the wrongs done to the common people by the powers that be, often judged by their personal codes of chivalry. ''Youxia'' did not come from any social class in particular. Various historical documents, wuxia novels and folktales describe them as being princes, government officials, poets, musicians, physicians, professional soldiers, merchants, monks and even humble farmers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Knight
''Romantic Knight'' (), alternatively translated as ''Knight of Romantic'', is the third album by Chinese heavy metal band Tang Dynasty, released June 13, 2008 on Jingwen Records. It is the only Tang Dynasty album to feature a five-piece lineup. Background ''Romantic Knight'' was released almost a full decade after Tang Dynasty's last album, '' Epic''. The group underwent several lineup changes, beginning with the departure of guitarist Kaiser Kuo in May 1999. Kuo was briefly replaced by Iron Kite frontman Yu Yang, who was in turn replaced by Chen Lei in October 2000. At the beginning of 2002, Liu Yijun, lead guitarist on the band's 1992 debut album, rejoined the band. His return transformed Tang Dynasty into a quintet, with Liu and Chen on guitars and frontman Ding Wu on lead vocals and occasional third guitar. Composition, themes, and recording Influences from traditional Chinese music and literature are far more prevalent on ''Romantic Knight'' than on the group's prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
