July 30, 2021
Grégoire Bienvenu, « Thoughts on CCP’s 100th birthday rap and the media coverage of Chinese music nationalism », Chengdu Rappers, ID : 10670/1.ru8uz7
On Thursday 1st of July 2021, the Communist Party of China turned 100 and, to mark the occasion, the whole People’s Republic morphed into a mass celebration of the world’s biggest political party’s Shanghai founding event. A few days prior to the launching of official celebrations and Xi Jinping’s speech on Tiananmen square, a musical event took the internet by surprise and offered a sweet mise en bouche to international observers of China: on the 20th of June, a 15min cypher entitled “100%” ...