TwinCities.com

China threatens detention in Xinjiang over banned Uyghur songs

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic ...
The Manila Times

Songs Across the Pacific: How Shanghai Became a "Second Home" for an American Children's Choir

In Utah, more than 100 members of the One Voice Children's Choir gathered for the "Togetherness" reunion event, and a screen behind them showed their early 2025 performance of the Chinese song "Wish," ...
TechCrunch

China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral

Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China’s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn’t released an album since 2017, comes ...
Newsday

Takeaways from AP's report on banned Uyghur songs

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of Uyghur-language songs, the AP has found. The policy was revealed in a leaked ...
The Economist

China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking

In the story “Luocha Haishi” a Chinese merchant gets lost at sea and ends up in a faraway land. The place is called Luocha, a word that refers to demons. But its people say they value beauty above all ...