"...Anything for the public that is not about how beautyful our country or people are, is not acceptable", says Chinese opera director Chen Shi-Zhen. His long awaited staging of the 400-year-old classical opera "Mu Dan Ting" (Peony Pavillion) was not only banned inside the borders of China; the Shanghai Bureau of Culture also prevented the opera from being exported to the West.
In a review of a concert by three Tibetan musicians performing in London, Samuel Ivor describes how hidden messages are conveyed in the Tibetan folk music
Tibetans in Nepal are facing increased restrictions on cultural performances. Recently a programme by a Kathmandu-based group was broken up by the Nepalese police
A new opera about Sun Yat-sen, China’s first president, was canceled shortly before its scheduled opening in Beijing because its music allegedly displeased the authorities
The singer Hortsang Lhalung Tso is reported to have been detained by Chinese authorities in Tsoe-town of Sangchu county in the Amdho region of eastern Tibet
One of China’s most popular televised talent shows, ‘Super Girl’ has been put under yearlong suspension by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
100 songs that harm ‘national cultural security’ have been placed on an internet blacklist by China’s culture ministry, reported BBC News on 24 August 2011
On 29 May 2011 a rap song dedicated to a Mongolian herder who was brutally killed was banned and removed from all Chinese Internet sites immediately after it was posted
The 69-year-old American folk singer Bob Dylan - famous for his songs against injustice and for civil rights - agreed to perform in China only with a heavily censored list of songs
