Yaogun Through the Years
Yaogun is the sum of all of the steps on the long, strange march to today – and tomorrow.
Thus, in aid of context, a timeline, highlighting yaogun’s journey and that of its homeland.
In further aid of context: what was happening in rock and roll’s motherland at the same time.
The end of imperial China, and the beginnings of China (it only sounds unrelated to yaogun)
The People’s Republic in the fifties and sixties
China slowly recovers from Mao and meets the world
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Rock seeps in; yaogun seeps through
The opening up of yaogun
The aughts and the new new China