China: east is east -- The Opium Wars -- The influence of early twentieth-century technology -- Shanghai in the 1920s-1930s: the joint was jumpin' -- International jazz musicians flock to Shanghai: ...

It is something of a paradox that the western world knows so relatively little about modern China, even as the awakening giant's influence in the world is increasing. With something like 10 million ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Chinese jazz singer Coco Zhao was ...

Album cover of Now's the Time: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Jazz (Vol. 1). [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Blue Note Records China, the newly established jazz label under Universal Music ...

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Once banned as a decadent Western music propagated by reactionary class enemies, China has embraced jazz to the point of organizing a festival on the doorstep of the ...

Blue Note, one of the world's best-known jazz clubs, announced an expansion recently to China as it banks on a growing appetite for live performances among moneyed consumers. The club, based in New ...