"Elder Brother and Younger Sister" - Reclaiming Land (what else?)

"Sounds of Nature": He Xuntian's First "RD" method Composition1986

More from Genius He Xuntian (new, 2012 album) - No Dadawa!

"Folk" bandit hero He Long ... from outlaw to Republican!

The Praetorian Supertank that came too late - the Mark V Panzer

Diehard Red: Chinese (Gov't) TV is still in lala land about opium

Cui Jian sings Nanniwan live performance, ca 1995?

Korean documentary on the caravan trade in Tibetan ponies for Chinese tea

PLA Review, Oct. 1 1949: China's First Marching Band Music

Another Anti-March: Opening of Malu Tianshi (1937) Police Volunteers "March"

Another Guerrilla non-March: Marchsong of the Volunteers (1935)

The Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1904, in film-fiction

Peking Opera version of the Havoc in Heaven chapter of Journey to the West

China's First Feature-Length Animated Cartoon, Princess Iron-fan, Wan Bros. 1941

Sister Xianglin Refilm, 1978 (excerpts) : A tribute to the mastery of the 50s

Opera in (con)fusion: What the "modernizers" have done to the Chorus (2011)

Liu Yan remembered: Tibetan dance solo from Ballet Honghegu, 2004 (A Tale of the Sacred Mountain)

Single-Act Operetta, "Meeting on the Balcony", from Tragical History of Liang-Zhu, color, 1949

Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Shaoxing opera classic, 1953, starring Yuan Xuefen, complete

China's first all-color 35 mm film; Romance of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, 1953

When the Underworld Strikes....

An Opera Star's Suicide In Documentary Retrospect: the Death of Xiaol Dangui (1920-47)

Shaoxing opera: "The Death of the Widow Xianglin", 2011 TV Version (Yucch)

Stage Sisters, Part 4 of 4

Stage Sisters Part 3

Stage Sisters, Part 2

Stage Sisters (1965), dir. Xie Jin, Part 1

Climbing the Ladder of Success, then Falling: "Stage Sisters", 1964

Portrait of a City-struck Loser: City Scenes 1935

Mickey Mouse in Shanghai, in Chinese social transpose (City Scenes, 1935)

City Scenes (Dushi fengguang), Oct. 1935, Opening Montage

Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees On the Town in Shanghai (City Scenes, 1935)

Age In Disrepute: the Fate of the Senior Actor-singer In a New Age of Youth (Yedian)

Childsong for Grownups: Zhou Xuan and "big little girl" sing a New Year's Couplet (Yedian)

Magic Trix in Malu Tianshi: Deception and Re-costume becomes self-destructive

"Ants, ants". Death of a Wrongly Scorned Good Woman (Finale, Malu tianshi, 1937)

Song-seller Also sells Smiles ...."Me for Sale"- Whoops! (Malu Tianshi 1937 Sc 14-15)

The Lure of Big City material glitz - a Piece of Fabric Easily Rent (Malutianshi, 1937)

Girls' Playsoldier Outfits in the 30s - so why is Magician/Trumpeter Chen Wearing one?

Lovesong's Sung Twice: From Spontaneous to "By Command" Tianya genü Replayed

Malu Tianshi (Street Angel), Themesong "Tianya genv" original Huangmei song 知心客

Where to meet the Original Wide-World-Wandering Songstress 天涯歌女 in Street Angel

Play-soldiering in an Alleyway: Public "Music" with No Sound

"Clapped in Lyrical Prison" - Street Angel Xioahong Singing "Song of the Seasons" (1937)

"Private Performance": World-Wandering Songstress (Tianya genu)

Discipline by Fiddle and Stick: Street songs from "Street Angel", 1937: Chaos and Compliance

Remembering Beggars "Clap"-(singing) for their Dinner, II: Just like in the old days?

Beggars Ballads: Sequence from Abing Biopic Erquan Yingyue 1979

CROSSOVER - from Mongolia to Xinjiang/Qinghai ("Tara" from "Migrations", Haya, 2012)

Haya "Flamenco" Syncretism: Why We Seem to be Hearing Flamenco (them Gypsy Kazakhs...)

Horsethief (1988): Religious Disconnect and Cross-Thievery in E. Tibet herder country

Film: "World": (2004), Animated Sequences: Life in the Virtual World of Cellphoning

Film, "World', Fashion Review Excerpts - Fashions from Where?

Zuo Xiao Zu Zhou Zombie original of Zhao Tao "Ulan Bator" - From Song into Non-song