Just received my hard copy of Internet Vulgarities in China, edited by Jian Xu and Dino Ge Zhang. Thrilled to have contributed to this collective book alongside such an impressive line-up! I had so much fun writing this chapter on vulgar internet songs, from "Mice Love Rice" to PG-One.
Et le second épisode dispo ici! 新年快樂! podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
Nouveau podcast de Chine Yuefu pour la nouvelle année lunaire du cheval: une sélection des meilleurs chansons Sinophone de 2025 avec @gbienvenu.bsky.social Antoine Clairé et moi-même. Première épisode dispo ici: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
I’m sorry but the current discourse about the so-called “fake ending” of Stranger Things is literally popular gematria and exegesis. It’s crazy but I’m here for it.
The founding manager and first guitar player of the legendary Beijing metal band Black Panther 黑豹, Guo Chuanlin 郭传林 passed away at 66 on January 4:
www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...
For my friends in Beijing, this evening we're putting on an especially good show in our weekly series, with performance by Yan Yulong, Yan Jun and Zhang Shouwang, three of the best-known experimental musicians in China.
And here's the Spotify playlist of Sinophone Music in 2025: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Rb...
It's almost the end of the year, which means it's time to talk about what I listened to in 2025: here's a list of Sinophone songs and albums released this year (without any particular order). The list will be updated until the end of 2025 (because I forgot stuff): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4937
Li Zhi 李志 covering SMZB’s song “No Friend No Life” in Wuhan 15 years ago is the video I didn’t know I needed: youtu.be/q-D_IheTRuU?...
Le 29e prix de la Fondation culturelle franco-taïwanaise décerné à Wu Hsi-deh et Victor Louzon
Le 21 novembre à 18h, la librairie Parenthèses reçoit l’écrivain Yan Lianke, romancier majeur de la scène littéraire chinoise.
L’échange sera modéré par Justine Rochot, chercheuse au CEFC, et Nathanel Amar, chercheur et enseignant à Hong Kong University.
The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...
ANU Press New Release. Cover image of Made in China Journal: Volume 10, Issue 1, 2025
What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless?
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Job klaxon 🚨
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
Very sad news: the past singer of Beijing metal band Ordnance 军械所 and singer of Mega Soul 万重, Ying Peng 应鹏 passed away last week at 42. I remember going to 13 Club every other week in 2007 to see Ordnance perform. My first course of Chinese political science and dissent: youtu.be/FBSfT0GkBbo?...
An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".
And the link to our 12 hours long Sinophone music Spotify playlist we played during the party: open.spotify.com/playlist/0XJ...
Here's the link to the PDF itself, a 20 pages long ABC of Chinese (un)popular music! scream4life.hypotheses.org/files/2025/0...
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Two new Chinese album released this month: "5689" by legendary electronic band Supermarket 超级市场 music.apple.com/tw/album/568... and "整一座城市的胡椒粉也辣不死人" (Peasant Delights) by controversial punk band Dirty Fingers 脏手指 (the lead singer was accused of sexual harassement) open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...
In this month's Sinophone music press review: a Taiwanese music festival for democracy in Vancouver, a fashion brand co-founded by Mayday's Ashin, New Pants singing with Minions, and of course the never-ending end of hallyu ban (I'll believe when I'll see it):
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
Hong Kong pianist and musician Anthony Sun Wei Ming played Beyond’s classic "海闊天空", before his departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport - after participating to a tribute concert dedicated to Wong Ka Kui in Malaysia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9o...
It’s my pleasure! With @gbienvenu.bsky.social we also made a 12 hours long playlist of Chinese music for a party: open.spotify.com/playlist/0XJ...
And I didn't even talked about hip-hop! I let my good friend and colleague @gbienvenu.bsky.social recommend his favorite rappers (I have a soft spot for this song by Bridge 布瑞吉: youtu.be/EprQN1NW_xQ?...)
And I'm just scratching the surface. I usually post a list of my favorite songs of the year on my blog: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4277 I wholeheartedly recommend Jake Newby newsletter "Concrete Avalanche": jakenewby.substack.com
And I'm not even talking about Mandarin songs from Taiwan: 傷心欲絕 Wayne's So Sad: youtu.be/-bi2_5SnIBw?... 八十八顆芭樂籽 88 BALAZ: youtu.be/aWVUxt-Hc6g?... or No Party for Caodong 草東沒有派對: youtu.be/ovTiSA9T-RU?... or Modern Cinema Master 當代電影大師: youtu.be/RFwl98N_Kss?...
I also like the post-rock band Lonely Leary 孤独的利里: youtu.be/DqbPlZZelYI?... The psychedelic electronic trio 南方酸性咪咪 South Acid Mimi from Yunnan: youtu.be/VbVwaDS-wdk?... The Yunnan reggae band KAWA: youtu.be/g-iZPxBpTBM?...
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Two amazing riot grrrl bands: 小王XIAOWANG from Beijing: youtu.be/ivy9LKW6JSM?... and Dummy Toys from Qingdao: youtu.be/d_R8WKJwz4A?...
C.S.B.Q 长沙暴青 are the Hunan successors of the legendary punk band from Wuhan SMZB: youtu.be/GIVfZUttnjg?...
