By closing its doors to the freedom of expression and western influence during the Cultural Revolution, China closed its doors to globalization. However, after the death of Mao, China’s new leader Deng Xiaoping who abandoned the policy had allowed the entrance of western development, and thereby inviting cultural exchange into China. Through this renounce that introduced a new China, including new music, it had introduced “Wham!”,(Associated Press December 27, 2016) the first Rock n’ Roll band that will forever play a part of Chinese music. As its new dynamic rocked into China after its Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976, rock music had regenerated the Chinese Culture, but at the same time, rebirthed into the new culture. While the influence of rock n’ roll becomes an ineluctable part of Chinese history, it also presents one of China’s first steps toward globalization.
Although “Wham!”(Associated Press December 27, 2016) was the first presenter of Rock n’Roll in China, Rock n’ Roll was not popularized in China until Cui Jian, the first Chinese rock n’ roll star presented it. However, Cui Jian’s interest in rock music was founded through an “illicit”(Chris Roughan, n.d, “Cui Jian August 2, 1961”) western album from Hong Kong, which at the time was a British colony, as he mentioned in his
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From electrical music to the fashion of having long hair, such fashion and behavior on stage had became the root of what the Chinese consider modernization. As depicted in the image of Tang Dynasty, one of China’s first rock bands, following the influential style of “Wham!”, (Associated Press December 27, 2016) it portrays the catch of the rock tradition. (Wham!’s performance in Beijing,(Huang, Steger, December 26, 2016) (Tang Dynasty’s album cover, (CRI, February 26, 2010)