Hello again everyone, Lhasa Montgomery here with China History Podcast episode 228.

Part 3 in our mini-series where we've looked at the birth of the Shanghai pop music scene

from the earliest days in the late 1920s, all the way through the 1930s and into the war years of the 1940s.

The story of these great singing stars was one that was braided tightly with the movie and

greater entertainment business in China.

And Shanghai was the focus where it was all

happening. The whole industry was brand spanking new and everyone in it knew.

This was going nowhere but up and thanks to these new technologies, the

possibilities were endless. Everything was in place, all conveniently located in

Shanghai. Broadcast radio, the gramophones, the talent, and the market.

And for Chinese culture, this was a brand new medium where creative minds could express themselves.

Going back to the beginning of Chinese history, there was poetry, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, prose, music, dance, and other ways for Chinese arts and humanities to manifest

itself. Now for the first time in all the millennia of history came Chinese cinema and a new form of popular music and entertainment.

In part one we flew at Felix Baumgartner Heights again to look at the life of Lijinghui and how he was able to act as a mechanism

that sort of connected the movie business to the singing and dance troop business

and to say that this whole thing caught on quickly in the 1920s and 30s would be too great an understatement.

Then in part two we looked at four of the seven great singing stars plus Lili Li Li.

We looked at Bai Hong,

Gai Guang, Gung Chiosia, and Wuyingin.

In this special extra long episode we'll look at the three remaining

Chitag Keshin, the seven great singing stars, and they were Li Xyan, Yowli, and Joe Schwen.

And without further ado, let's look at the fifth of the seven great singing stars, the

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