Instruments
Zheng
Being played in a mall, but has good visuals.
Ensemble also features zheng, erhu
Pipa
Played by Yu Liangmau
Other
Houguang theatre
Beijing opera
Leehom Wang
Chinese R+B star music video featuring Beijing Opera, jinghu, and erhu
“The East is Red”
Classic 1960s communist propoganda film
Tiananmen Square Protests
Documented by an American journalist in 1989
Hope-to-despair
Music video collage history of Chinese communism leading up to Tiananmen Square massacre
BBC report
On Tiananmen events in 1989
8th Congress of Chinese Communist Party
Revolutionary Opera
Short clip of “The Department of Red Woman.” Was performed for US President Nixon when he visited China in 1972.
Autumn Moon over the Han Palace
We are Successors to Communism
Paper Concerto
By Tan Dun
Cui Jian
Live Concert
Hard driving funk; starts with a guaguanco conga groove
“Fake Monk”
Live concert with zheng player in band
Voice of a Generation
Jian’s words narrating the 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square
Performance at French Embassy in Beijing
“Nothing But My Name”
Graphic slideshow of violence at Tiananmen Square set to Jian’s song; puts his song in the context of social significance.
Tibet
“Varja Sky Over Tibet”
Movie trailer, some historical context
J-Pop Music
“Murasaki no Yukari” (Rin)
“Sakura Sakura” (Rin)
Japan – Koto
“Koto Song”
Dave Brubeck, 1966
Japan – Gagaku
Hawaiian Gagaku Society concert
Japan – Sankyoku
Performance at the Pink Cow
Shamisen, Shakuhachi, and Koto
Tan Dun
“Farewell”
From Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Bei Bei (Chinese American Zheng Rock)
Uighur
Uighur Pop-folk
Following about a minute of preliminaries, this might be described as a Bollywood-meets-Uighur-folk kitsch video.