I may have created the coolest memorabilia of Chinese indie rock and roll

On April 1, 2003, Cantopop superstar Leslie Cheung jumped to his death from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong. A stream of Hongkongers paid tribute outside the hotel on Wednesday, 23 years on. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP. In full: buff.ly/GkTZP5r

Très juste compte-rendu par Chayma Boda de mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" dans le dernier numéro d'Études Chinoises @etudeschinoises.bsky.social : www.persee.fr/doc/etchi_07...

[✨PARUTION]
Études chinoises n° XLIV
👉 Un numéro centré sur deux disciplines : l'histoire et la littérature
📚En librairie et sur @persee.fr : www.persee.fr/issue/etchi_...

Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店 singing their anthem “Kill the One from Shijiazhuang” 杀死那个石家庄人 during their sold-out Paris concert

Une étape parisienne pour le plus célèbre des groupes de rock indé chinois Omnipotent Youth Society s’est imposé sur la scène rock indépendante chinoise depuis son premier album en 2010. Le groupe compose la bande-son parfaite des réformes économiques et de ses inégalités s…

Ce soir c'est le concert (déjà complet) de Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店 au Cabaret Sauvage, l'occasion de rappeler l'histoire du groupe sous la plume de François Bougon sur Mediapart: www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

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.

Épisode 11 - Spécial Nouvel An Lunaire (下) Épisode de l’émission · Chine Yuefu 新乐府 · S. 2 Ép. 11 · 1 h 15 min

Et le second épisode dispo ici! 新年快樂! podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...

Épisode 11 - Spécial Nouvel An Lunaire (上) Épisode de l’émission · Chine Yuefu 新乐府 · S. 2 Ép. 11 · 1 h 14 min

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.

Sinophone Music in 2025: A Year of Creativity

And here's the Spotify playlist of Sinophone Music in 2025: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Rb...

Sinophone Music in 2025: A Year of Creativity 2025 is almost over, and like every year, here is a list of Sinophone songs and albums I listen to this year. For me, this year was a year of intense creativity. After the aftershock of the COVID pand...

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

李志乐队翻唱SMZB歌曲No Friend No Life YouTube video by SMZB DDGCD

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, Taiwan Info Le Taïwanais Wu Hsi-deh [吳錫德], professeur honoraire à l’université Tamkang, à New Taipei, et le Français Victor Louzon, maître de conférences &agrav...

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...

Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to t...

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...

Zine “Do You Like Chinese Music” + Playlist Last July, with my esteemed colleague and friend Grégoire Bienvenu, who wrote his PhD on Chinese hip-hop and host the fabulous podcast “Chine Yuefu” (in French), we decided to write a zine on Chinese ...

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

超級市場在 Apple Music 上的《5689》 專輯 · 2025年 · 10 首歌

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...

Monthly Press Review 18 – August 2025 Sunset Rollercoaster rocks at Fuji Rock Taiwanese indie band Sunset Rollercoaster (落日飛車) performed at the Japanese music festival Fuji Rock, and reveals in this Taipei Times article how they became th...

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):
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孫老師KLIA即興彈奏Beyond海闊天空 YouTube video by Lew KS

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...

Do You Like Chinese Music

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...