Nathanel Amar
@nathanelamar.bsky.social
Researching Sinophone music & popular culture
ⵣ Wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?
"Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire", PUR, 2022
scream4life.hypotheses.org
ⵣ Wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?
"Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire", PUR, 2022
scream4life.hypotheses.org
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Scream for Life
L’émergence au milieu des années 1990 en République populaire de Chine d’un underground musical punk à Pékin et Wuhan a de quoi surprendre, quelques années seulement après la répression du mouvement d...
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Mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" est accessible en intégralité sur OpenEdition!
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
Reposted by Nathanel Amar
The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...
Reposted by Nathanel Amar
What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless?
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless?
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Reposted by Nathanel Amar
Job klaxon 🚨
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postroctoral research fellow in social sciences/migration studies (Based in Taipei, Taiwan)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Job klaxon 🚨
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Reposted by Nathanel Amar
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to t...
www.routledge.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
Very sad news: the past singer of Beijing metal band Ordnance 军械所 and singer of Mega Soul 万重, Ying Peng 应鹏 passed away last week at 42. I remember going to 13 Club every other week in 2007 to see Ordnance perform. My first course of Chinese political science and dissent: youtu.be/FBSfT0GkBbo?...
October 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Very sad news: the past singer of Beijing metal band Ordnance 军械所 and singer of Mega Soul 万重, Ying Peng 应鹏 passed away last week at 42. I remember going to 13 Club every other week in 2007 to see Ordnance perform. My first course of Chinese political science and dissent: youtu.be/FBSfT0GkBbo?...
An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".
September 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Zine “Do You Like Chinese Music” + Playlist
Last July, with my esteemed colleague and friend Grégoire Bienvenu, who wrote his PhD on Chinese hip-hop and host the fabulous podcast “Chine Yuefu” (in French), we decided to write a zine on Chinese ...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
September 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Two new Chinese album released this month: "5689" by legendary electronic band Supermarket 超级市场 music.apple.com/tw/album/568... and "整一座城市的胡椒粉也辣不死人" (Peasant Delights) by controversial punk band Dirty Fingers 脏手指 (the lead singer was accused of sexual harassement) open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...
超級市場在 Apple Music 上的《5689》
專輯 · 2025年 · 10 首歌
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September 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Two new Chinese album released this month: "5689" by legendary electronic band Supermarket 超级市场 music.apple.com/tw/album/568... and "整一座城市的胡椒粉也辣不死人" (Peasant Delights) by controversial punk band Dirty Fingers 脏手指 (the lead singer was accused of sexual harassement) open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...
In this month's Sinophone music press review: a Taiwanese music festival for democracy in Vancouver, a fashion brand co-founded by Mayday's Ashin, New Pants singing with Minions, and of course the never-ending end of hallyu ban (I'll believe when I'll see it):
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
Monthly Press Review 18 – August 2025
Sunset Rollercoaster rocks at Fuji Rock Taiwanese indie band Sunset Rollercoaster (落日飛車) performed at the Japanese music festival Fuji Rock, and reveals in this Taipei Times article how they became th...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In this month's Sinophone music press review: a Taiwanese music festival for democracy in Vancouver, a fashion brand co-founded by Mayday's Ashin, New Pants singing with Minions, and of course the never-ending end of hallyu ban (I'll believe when I'll see it):
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
Hong Kong pianist and musician Anthony Sun Wei Ming played Beyond’s classic "海闊天空", before his departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport - after participating to a tribute concert dedicated to Wong Ka Kui in Malaysia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9o...
孫老師KLIA即興彈奏Beyond海闊天空
YouTube video by Lew KS
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September 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hong Kong pianist and musician Anthony Sun Wei Ming played Beyond’s classic "海闊天空", before his departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport - after participating to a tribute concert dedicated to Wong Ka Kui in Malaysia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9o...
The legendary Beijing punk act Hang On The Box 挂在盒子上 - still fronted by GIA (but apparently not an all-female band anymore) - gave a concert at the Strawberry Party in Beijing on August 8
August 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The legendary Beijing punk act Hang On The Box 挂在盒子上 - still fronted by GIA (but apparently not an all-female band anymore) - gave a concert at the Strawberry Party in Beijing on August 8
The Sinophone Music press review of June-July is finally here! In this issue, a newly discovered Teresa Teng’s Japanese song, the first Chinese rapper surpassing Jay Chou on streaming platforms, a Taiwanese song censored in Taiwan, GMA winners and much more! scream4life.hypotheses.org/4689
Monthly Press Review 16 – June & July 2025
The end of K-pop ban in China (again)? Another article on the possible end of the unofficial K-pop ban in China since 2016, this time on NBC News. The K-pop band Epex was supposed to perform in May bu...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The Sinophone Music press review of June-July is finally here! In this issue, a newly discovered Teresa Teng’s Japanese song, the first Chinese rapper surpassing Jay Chou on streaming platforms, a Taiwanese song censored in Taiwan, GMA winners and much more! scream4life.hypotheses.org/4689
A lot of love for the three demos posted online by the Chengdu garage punk band MENGZHUMENG 悶煮悶 entitled "Social Reintegration", with songs like "High School Dropout", "Make Money For What" or "CN NSBM Fuckoff": mengzhumeng.bandcamp.com/album/social...
Social reintegration DEMO#1, by 悶煮悶MENGZHUMENG Provided by 业业业唱片YEYEYERECORDS
6 track album
mengzhumeng.bandcamp.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A lot of love for the three demos posted online by the Chengdu garage punk band MENGZHUMENG 悶煮悶 entitled "Social Reintegration", with songs like "High School Dropout", "Make Money For What" or "CN NSBM Fuckoff": mengzhumeng.bandcamp.com/album/social...
New upload: So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) issue 125 (July 2012), a special issue on Lanzhou and Xining bands, featuring 低苦艾 (Low Wormwood) and their famous song, "Lanzhou Lanzhou": scream4life.hypotheses.org/299#124
So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) CD Archive Project
Table of Contents: We previously talked about 1990s rock magazines in China, as “Punk Generation” (朋克时代) or “Freedom Music” (自由音乐). They pretty much all disappeared after one or two years. One fanzine...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New upload: So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) issue 125 (July 2012), a special issue on Lanzhou and Xining bands, featuring 低苦艾 (Low Wormwood) and their famous song, "Lanzhou Lanzhou": scream4life.hypotheses.org/299#124
A new Sinophone music press review (May 2025): commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death, Mayday's Taipei concerts sold-out in minutes, Freddy Lim becoming Taiwan's representative in Finland, and more: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4597
Monthly Press Review 16 – May 2025
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death This May marks the 30th anniversary of Taiwanese popular singer Teresa Teng untimely death. A remembrance service was held in Taiwan on May 8,...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
June 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A new Sinophone music press review (May 2025): commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death, Mayday's Taipei concerts sold-out in minutes, Freddy Lim becoming Taiwan's representative in Finland, and more: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4597
Possibly the first time the China Daily (English edition) mentions the Wuhan punk band SMZB in an article on indie music in Wuhan. The problem is that the lyrics they quote from the song "大武漢" (the song is in Chinese and English) are slightly different... 1/3
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...
In Wuhan the beat goes on
The first time I went to Wuhan was in 2011. I arrived at lunch time on New Year's Eve and the whole afternoon was devoted to interviewing the Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne.
global.chinadaily.com.cn
June 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Possibly the first time the China Daily (English edition) mentions the Wuhan punk band SMZB in an article on indie music in Wuhan. The problem is that the lyrics they quote from the song "大武漢" (the song is in Chinese and English) are slightly different... 1/3
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...
“Would I make the same mistakes?
龐貝、龐貝、龐貝
我會的，我一定會”
The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday
龐貝、龐貝、龐貝
我會的，我一定會”
The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday
May 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“Would I make the same mistakes?
龐貝、龐貝、龐貝
我會的，我一定會”
The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday
龐貝、龐貝、龐貝
我會的，我一定會”
The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday
Apparently you can pre-order the Switch 2 at Don Don Donki
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Apparently you can pre-order the Switch 2 at Don Don Donki
30 years ago on this day, Teresa Teng passed away in Chiang Mai.
“Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”
“Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
30 years ago on this day, Teresa Teng passed away in Chiang Mai.
“Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”
“Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”
Mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" est accessible en intégralité sur OpenEdition!
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
Scream for Life
L’émergence au milieu des années 1990 en République populaire de Chine d’un underground musical punk à Pékin et Wuhan a de quoi surprendre, quelques années seulement après la répression du mouvement d...
books.openedition.org
May 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" est accessible en intégralité sur OpenEdition!
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)!
books.openedition.org/pur/257986
He we go again: April's Sinophone music monthly press review is online. Finally, the Coldplay concert is over. There's also the IShowSpeed visit in China, and its consequences on Chinese soft power (and weirdly enough, Zhang Dawei):
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514
Monthly Press Review 15 – April 2025
Taiwan Beats SXSW Official Showcase An article on the official website of the SXSW Music Festival on the Taiwanese acts (subsidized by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture) performing at the next SXSW festi...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
He we go again: April's Sinophone music monthly press review is online. Finally, the Coldplay concert is over. There's also the IShowSpeed visit in China, and its consequences on Chinese soft power (and weirdly enough, Zhang Dawei):
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514
Catching up with Marvel’s Blood Hunt series (2024). They still got it.
May 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Catching up with Marvel’s Blood Hunt series (2024). They still got it.
New Chthonic MV, “Endless Aeons” 百萬遍. As always, the song mix Buddhism with Taiwan history, but it hits differently today as Freddy Lim recently discovered through declassified archives the participation of his grandfather to the 228 movement which led to the White Terror
youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...
youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...
CHTHONIC閃靈【ENDLESS AEONS 百萬遍】Music Video
YouTube video by CHTHONIC 閃靈
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
New Chthonic MV, “Endless Aeons” 百萬遍. As always, the song mix Buddhism with Taiwan history, but it hits differently today as Freddy Lim recently discovered through declassified archives the participation of his grandfather to the 228 movement which led to the White Terror
youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...
youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...
Fake Nvidia ad for an adult store in Taipei
April 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Fake Nvidia ad for an adult store in Taipei
"Rocking Boundaries: Made-in-China Feminism and an All-Female Chinese Band in Tokyo", a very good article in @madeinchinajournal.com by Meng Meiyun on an all-female Chinese rock band based in Tokyo, and its relation to diasporic feminism and (self)censorship:
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r...
Rocking Boundaries: Made-in-China Feminism and an All-Female Chinese Band in Tokyo | Made in China Journal
In the Chinese music scene, women have traditionally been confined to roles embodying elegance and obedience. This is exemplified by groups such as the 12 Girls Band, whose success, built on performin...
madeinchinajournal.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"Rocking Boundaries: Made-in-China Feminism and an All-Female Chinese Band in Tokyo", a very good article in @madeinchinajournal.com by Meng Meiyun on an all-female Chinese rock band based in Tokyo, and its relation to diasporic feminism and (self)censorship:
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r...