“The Chinese Communist Party is not necessarily better than its foreign counterpart, and vice versa.” “We can compare China’s one-party system and the Western multiparty system, and we know each system has its pros and cons,” he says. Still, in an online article published on June 29, Wang wrote that Chinese textbooks, often criticized by outsiders for their focus on patriotic education, are more objective than those from other nations. Wang is not a member of the Chinese Communist Party and says his generation has been exposed to plenty of Western ideas. But it turned out many audience members were coming for the political rap, and relishing such lines as, “Meanwhile, we can trust the Public Security, cuz the policemen are kind to citizens but crucial to our enemies.” “We didn’t want people to think of us as making money from propaganda songs,” Wang says. At first, the shows featured apolitical pop songs. Since forming on China’s National Day last year, CD Rev has held concerts in the southwestern city of Chengdu.
“We will not initiate attacks on others.” “Obviously China is rising, but we have 5,000 years of Confucian education so we are a peace-loving country,” says Wang. In like manner, “This Is China” then name-checks the wonders of Chinese society, such as ubiquitous payment by mobile phones (even to make appointments with doctors!) and strict gun control that prevents “gun slaughtering.” Scientific achievements also make it into the song, including KBBF crystals used in laser technology and the discovery of malaria treatment aremisinin by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Tu Youyou. “It has large population and it is really hard to manage.” “First things first, we all know that China is a developing country,” he continues, as though reading from a textbook. “As an individual presently based in the southwest of the country,” declaims Wang, in what must be the most unlikely introduction ever to fall from the lips of an MC. The rhymes on “This Is China” are equally wooden - indeed hilarious to foreign ears weaned on a diet of Kanye and Lil Wayne.
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