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	Cui Jian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cui Jian grew up in a musical family in Beijing - his mother was a member of a Korean dance troupe and his father was a professional trumpet player.
		Cui Jian himself started playing the trumpet at the age of fourteen and joined the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra in 1981, at the age of twenty.
		Cui did finally play with the Rolling Stones at the Shanghai Grand Stage on April 8, 2006, singing and playing rhythm guitar with the Stones for the song "Wild Horses."[2] Following the performance, Cui was quoted as saying, "This is the 20th-year anniversary of Chinese rock 'n' roll...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cui_Jian (787 words)

	Words Without Borders -> Power of the Powerless
		Chinese rock star Cui Jian begins his song “The 90s” with the line: “Words are not precise already—can’t express this world clearly.” And in the clarity of that expression, he voices the sentiment of a generation of Chinese youth: China’s inexorable lurch into the twenty-first century made language as dizzying as change itself.
		Cui Jian learned to play classical trumpet at age fourteen, and had secured a prestigious position in Beijing’s philharmonic orchestra by the time he was twenty.
		Cui Jian was banned from performing, but his music bubbled over the edges of his underground existence, and the demand for him remained intense enough to keep fans raging, even after years without performances.
	www.wordswithoutborders.org /article.php?lab=Cui (1409 words)

	Beijing rocker wants to roll
		Cui Jian came of age with much of his generation at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, during the mass demonstrations of 1989.
		Cui Jian is currently working on a score for a new ballet and this piece has a good chance of being performed.
		Cui Jian has been criticized by some of his contemporaries for not moving on, for not changing, even for remaining too political at a time when many Chinese people are uninterested in politics.
	www.gluckman.com /CuiJian.html (1954 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Live Voices: Cui Jian at the Avalon
		Cui Jian is known as the father of the Chinese rock music movement in the mid-1980s.
		Cui Jian started out as a trumpeter in the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra, but dropped classical for rock music after being exposed by western rock sounds that infiltrated the Chinese underground music scene.
		Cui Jian’s style is reminiscent of the '80s style that influenced him, with some songs having a funk beat and bass line, while others are more rock-ballad based.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=10991 (477 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Cui Jian: Father of Chinese Rock 'N' Roll
		Cui Jian incorporated these new styles into his own songs and began playing with his band in 1984. Musically, Cui Jian's music is an amalgamation of '80s rock and traditional Chinese music, employing both western instruments and traditional Chinese flutes and horns.
		Cui Jian has had a profound impact on the incorporation of styles and the decentralization of current youth culture, and is simply known as the father of Chinese rock 'n' roll.
		Cui Jian: This is the movement called "Live Vocals" [points to logo on shirt]. There is something that I don't like in mainstream music scenes; there's a lot of fake singing or lip synching on television music programs. Even on stage, a lot of people don't sing because there are a lot of producers, directors and sound engineers.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=11612 (1414 words)

	UCLA Asia Institute: Cui Jian: Father of Chinese Rock 'N' Roll
		Cui Jian is largely known in China as the father of Chinese rock 'n' roll because of his prominence in the music scene and the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement.
		Despite this, Cui Jian's following increased because fans identified with his lyrics and longings for political freedoms in the wake of the new economic boom. This culminated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement in which Cui Jian performed at the protest in support of the students. His song, "Nothing to my Name" was hailed as the movement's anthem.
		Cui Jian is often compared to, depending on the referenced cultural historian, as the Chinese equivalent of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Kurt Cobain, among others; given his central influential role in the startup of China's rock scene, these comparisons are apt.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /asia/article.asp?parentid=11612 (1440 words)

	asia-inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cui knows exactly why, and so for the last few years, he has focused his energy on battling two evils he sees stymieing the development of Chinese rock.
		Cui was also the driving force behind last year’s Snow Mountain Music Festival — a two-day rock fest billed as “China’s Woodstock” held in Lijiang, in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, which showcased new bands from many genres of rock.
		But Cui’s sway on the Chinese rock scene is undiminished, and legions of fans await the next release, eager to hear the latest sermon delivered in Cui Jian’s angry, staccato cadence.
	www.asia-inc.com /May04/Hchina_cuijian_may.htm (615 words)

	Cui Jian: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cui Jian himself started playing the trumpet at the age of fourteen and joined the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra in 1981, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Cui Jian first shot to stardom in 1985, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Cui frequently appeared with the students and was affirmed by Wu'er Kaixi[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cui_jian.htm (1666 words)

	:: MWEB Music ::
		China's godfather of electric rock Cui Jian assaulted Beijing late Saturday with his loud and angry wall of sound in his first officially sanctioned concert in the Chinese capital in 12 years.
		Cui has enjoyed a rebirth this year with the release of his fifth studio album "Show Your Colours", dedicated to the pitfalls of China's unprecedented urbanisation, and a videotaped concert performance that was aired on state-controlled television in February.
		In a tribute to his Korean ethnicity, Cui also performed an eerie version of "Dancing on the 38th Parallel", a performance that included dancers dressed in Korean mourning costumes gliding across the stage as a flurry of white snow fell from the ceiling.
	new.mweb.co.za /music/music_story.jsp?content=137593 (560 words)

	sandiego.citysearch.com > Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The way rocker Cui Jian (pronounced "Swan Jen") has personally piqued China's growing hunger for rock is hardly conceivable to a Western audience.
		Jian has an agenda that spans far beyond his role as international rock n' roll icon, although he shines brilliantly in this role.
		Jian's album, "Rock 'N' Roll On The New Long March" is the best-selling album in China's history.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/271227?p=1 (226 words)

	frontline: china in the red: birth of a beijing music scene \| PBS
		I became intensely fascinated with Cui Jian, not only because he was a bona fide icon of a hitherto unseen Chinese counter-culture, but even more so for the integrity with which he had indigenized a Western musical form.
		After the success of the American shows, Cui Jian was agreeable and, given that he was in the process of changing management, it seemed an opportune moment to bring an American into his mix.
		Cui Jian's saxophone player, Liu Yuan, had opened his own club, CD Café -- a beautifully designed two-story concert space with a raised wooden stage and a top-notch professional sound and lighting system.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/red/sonic (4455 words)

	Archy's Home on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cui Jian is no doubt the most influential rock musician in contemporary Chinese history.
		Cui Jian was born in a Korean-Chinese family in 1961 with his father a professional trumpeter and his mother a professional Korean dancer.
		Cui Jian managed to gain exposure to some of the artists like "SimonandGarfunkel" and "Rolling Stone", which influenced him greatly.
	www.eecis.udel.edu /~xuan/music/cui_jian/cui_jian_home.html (298 words)

	China's 'Woodstock' overcomes rain and altitude - smh.com.au
		The founding father of Chinese rock music Cui Jian provided a rousing finale to "China's Woodstock" in the early hours of Monday, as the country's first-ever outdoor music festival confounded initial fears by proving a success.
		As Cui belted out some of his most politically-charged songs before an audience including local Communist Party officials, the Snow Mountain Music Festival was hailed by organisers, fans and local press alike as a triumph.
		Cui Jian, 41, known as the man who first brought Western-style rock to the masses in China, has pursued his career despite being periodically banned from performing, producing records and getting radio and television airplay.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/19/1029114080850.html (568 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Music of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The widely-acknowledged forefather of Chinese rock is Cui Jian.
		Cui Jian (Chinese: å´”å¥; Pinyin: ; born August 2, 1961) is a Beijing-based musician, songwriter, trumpet player, guitarist and composer.
		Everything started with the first rock star Cui Jian who has also already played in Germany together with Udo Lindenberg (2000 and 2002) and toured the US several times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-China (9558 words)

	CNN.com - China rock star's quest for artistic freedom - February 19, 2001
		Cui, dubbed "father of Chinese rock 'n' roll", has been banned from staging large public solo shows for 12 years since he thumped out his loud rock rap songs before thousands of pro-democracy students in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
		Cui, who has been experimenting different tunes such as Beijing opera, has moved away from his signature style of rock rap with rebellious lyrics.
		Cui received the annual Dutch Prince Claus Award last December for his contribution to Chinese rock culture and for expressing the feelings of the youth in his country.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/16/hongkong.rockshow.01 (583 words)

	Chinese Rock
		Cui Jian, the leading mainland pop/rock singer, and his work have dwelled in the borderlands of permissibility for some years.
		Even the repetition of a number of older Cui favorites failed to disguise the fact that the force and charisma of his earlier work was missing, and the album was reported to be far from a commercial hit either in the mainland or overseas.
		As the flagbearer of mainland rock, Cui has felt in the past that it was his task to negotiate performing space for rock as a whole, and perhaps it is in the grey zone of cultural tolerance and coexistence that he continues to perform his most important service.
	tsquare.tv /film/badboys.html (1956 words)

	Chinese Rocker to Play in Beijing Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Veteran Chinese rocker Cui Jian is to return this month to a major venue in his hometown of Beijing for the first time in 12 years.
		Cui, 44, hasn't played a major venue in Beijing since a pair of 1993 concerts at the 66,000-seat stadium.
		Cui won fame in the late 1980s with songs such as "Nothing to my Name" voicing the hopes and anxieties of a generation of Chinese entering adulthood after the death of Mao Zedong and the end of orthodox communism.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/01/entertainment/e045014D30.DTL&type=printable (253 words)

	Cui Jian - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The former leader of Chinese rock band, Ado, Jian's music as a soloist has continued to be embraced by the youth of China.
		According to The Wall Street Journal, "Cui Jian continues to be an inspiration for China's disenchanted youth." Jian's prime inspiration comes not from politics but from more personal issues.
		When a military officer heard one of his more-defiant tunes, Jian was forbidden from performing in public for a year.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,550970,00.html (691 words)

	Excerpt From New York Times, 28 August 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cui, China's premier rock star, seems to delight in irritating Chinese officials: he once performed in a red blindfold, and he renders traditional Communist revolutionary songs in rock rhythms.
		Cui performed in New York on Saturday night as part of a much-heralded four-city tour, his first in the West, including stops in San Francisco, Kalamazoo, Mich. (the home of his girlfriend's parents), and Boston.
		Cui's new album, "Eggs Under the Red Flag," and billed as nonpolitical, a convoy of Chinese reporters has followed him almost everywhere, peppering him with questions on the political front[...] Unequivocally, Mr.
	www.chinesecinemas.org /excerpt.html (508 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Cui Jian to play in his hometown
		Cui, 44, regularly jams in Beijing bars but he hasn't played a major venue in his hometown since 1993.
		Cui checks the microphones, repeatedly lifting his trademark baseball cap emblazoned with a bright red star to run a hand through his thinning hair.
		Cui, a classically trained trumpet player, used to wear peasant clothes onstage in a nod China's agrarian revolution and the communist upbringing that both nurtured and constrained his creativity.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2005/09/24/63600.html (1716 words)

	Liu Yuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also in the 1980s he was a founding member of the band of China's first rock star, Cui Jian (a fellow performer in the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe), for which he also acquired fame.
		Liu favors the tenor and baritone saxophone as his primary instruments, though he also uses a modernized version of the suona for some songs in Cui Jian's band, in which he still performs.
		In May 1999 Liu became the manager of a jazz club called CD Cafe in his home city of Beijing, where he performs regularly with his Liu Yuan Jazz Quartet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liu_Yuan (442 words)

	China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The face of Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock and roll, graced the cover of the first Chinese edition of the classic American rock and roll magazine, Rolling Stone.
		China's godfather of electric rock Cui Jian assaulted Beijing late Saturday with his loud and angry wall of sound in his first officially sanctioned concert in the capital in 12 years.
		Cui Jian, about whose influence on Chinese rock-and-roll countless dissertations have been written, is set to release a new album at the end of the month.
	chinadigitaltimes.net /test_tag.php?id=Cui+Jian (741 words)

	Indie Music Features on CLUAS - The Chinese Rock Scene
		Cui Jian, a classically trained trumpet player struck the rallying cry for Chinese rock on May 9, 1986, when, still a relative nobody, he jumped onto the stage at the One Hundred Chinese Stars Show, dedicated to the International Peace Year, at Beijing Worker’s Stadium.
		Dressed in army fatigues and a cloak Cui Jian belted out the song that made him famous: “Nothing To My Name.” When he’d finished a stunned audience erupted in a standing ovation and overnight China’s youth were playing his songs on beat-up guitars in dormitories and dingy bars.
		Following in Cui Jian’s path, bands like Tang Dynasty fused heavy metal with elements of Chinese traditional music, taking their sounds to an enthusiastic Hong Kong crowds during a seminal tour of mainland rock there in 1994.
	www.cluas.com /music/features/chinese_rock.htm (878 words)

	Cui Jian -- Cobra
		During the Tianemen protests Cui Jian is said to have taken part in a hunger strike in the Beijing.
		The first cut on the CD is "I Have Nothing." I have asked many Chinese people about Cui Jian, and some shrug their shoulders and ask, "Who is that?" But when I am able to play them the song, "I Have Nothing," they recognize it.
		The music on their one CD is in the hard rock mode, and like that of Cui Jian, the lyrics can be read as critical social commentary of life in China.
	members.aol.com /Jakajk/cuicobra.html (2785 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Photo Essay - Rebel Yells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jian (his full name is pronounced, roughly, Sway Jen) was a trumpet player with the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra before becoming China’s first rock star.
		Jian was a youth hero long before the Tiananmen Square student demonstrations of 1989.
		Jian escaped censure for his actions at Tiananmen, but was silenced midway through a 10-city tour that followed.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/photoessay/protest/index7.html (428 words)

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