1934. China. Li Jinhui
Shanghai-based composer and songwriter Li Jinhui was banned (if only ineffectually) by the ruling Nationalist Party, and repeatedly came under attack from the socialist left because of the association of his music with the colonial, petit-bourgeois culture of urban Shanghai. Li Jinhui had been experimenting with mixing Chinese folk tunes and Big Band jazz since 1927, with the idea of creating not just a Chinese version of jazz but Chinese jazz. Li Jinhui also promoted the idea of Mandarin as a national language in China and was a prolific composer of patriotic songs. The critics derided his music as "Huangse Yinyue" – “Yellow music” – because of its sexual associations. That led it to being derided as pornographic. His creation of "yellow music" brought opprobrium from both ends of the political spectrum and he was branded a "corruptor" of public morals and was hounded to his death during the Cultural Revolution.

1940-1945. Japan. Jazz
Like the German Nazis, the Japanese government banned jazz music in the 1930's and during the Second World War. Jazz was considered a low decadent art form by many of China's elite, a response similar to that of mainstream society in the US during the early jazz era years of the 1920's.