{"id":9041,"date":"2014-09-23T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9041"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:40:39","slug":"four-chinese-rock-bands-you-need-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9041","title":{"rendered":"Four Chinese rock bands you need to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>In his freshman seminar Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll in Post-Mao China, Associate Professor Jiayan Mi opens students\u2019 ears to contemporary music from the East. Here are four Chinese rockers he says everyone should know.<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_158327951.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_158327951\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>1.<\/span> <strong>CUI JIAN.<\/strong> \u201cHe\u2019s the godfather of Chinese rock\u2014a true pioneer,\u201d says Mi. \u201cHe channels Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi and John Lennon all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">2.<\/span> <strong>TANG DYNASTY.<\/strong> \u201cThey use heavy metal as a nationalist call to remember China\u2019s past glory and power\u2014and their vocal delivery is just the best. They\u2019re also China\u2019s first heavy metal band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">3.<\/span> <strong>HE YONG.<\/strong> The first Chinese punk singer, He Yong has \u201ca very angry sound,\u201d according to Mi. \u201cIt\u2019s a little like Nirvana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">4.<\/span> <strong>YIN TS\u2019ANG.<\/strong> \u201cThere are so many emerging hip-hop artists in China. Though Yin Ts\u2019ang uses traditional Chinese instruments, they\u2019re not accepted by the\u00a0 mainstream because their music and lyrics are still harsh to Chinese ears,\u201d says Mi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his freshman seminar Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll in Post-Mao China, Associate Professor Jiayan Mi opens students\u2019 ears to contemporary music from the East. Here are the rockers he says everyone should know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":9042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,74,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2014","category-the-need-to-know-basis","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}