Taiwan’s 1930s Pop Boom, and Its First Pop Queen – S5-E18

Han Cheung, the man behind Taiwan in Time, the long-running
history column in the Taipei Times, returns to tell the story of
Taiwan’s first pop star. Liu
Ching-hsiang 劉清香  was
singing Taiwanese opera in the late 1920s. A few years later,
under the stage name Chun-Chun 純純, she
became Japanese Formosa’s first recording star — the voice behind
dozens of hits and the breakout anthem “Longing for the Spring
Breeze.” Hear how Columbia Records and a savvy movie tie-in made
her a household name, and learn more about the 1930s, which, when
it comes to music, was perhaps the most “progressive” decade of
the 50 years of colonial rule.





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