Liu Xue'an
Liu Xue'an (刘雪庵 1905–1985), whose pen names were Yan Ru (晏如), Wu Qing (吴青), and Su Ya (苏崖) was a Chinese composer. Among his best known songs include "The Great Wall Ballad", "When Will You Return?," and "Red Bean Poem" (红豆词).[1]
He taught at the Sunan College of Education in Suzhou, the music department of the East China University in Shanghai and at the Arts Normal College and the Conservatory of Chinese.[2]
Liu was criticized and suffered during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 and during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. He offered a public self-criticism in 1980 before he was rehabilitated, however criticism of his song "When Will You Return?" continued in mainland China for some time as an example of "yellow music", a product of decadent and immoral society.[3]
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- ^ Chʻing – issues 14–15, p. 139, 2000 "For Liu Xue'an (1905–1985) – the composer not only of this song but also of other patriotic and well-known compositions, for example "Changcheng yao" ("Ballad of the Great Wall", 1936) and the title song of the movie Gudao Tiantang (Orphan ..."
- ^ A Critical History of New Music in China. p. 359, Jingzhi Liu, Caroline Mason (2010) "Liu Xue'an (1905–1985) taught in the arts education department of Sunan College of Education in Suzhou, the music department of the East China University in Shanghai and at the Arts Normal College and the Conservatory of Chinese."
- ^ Steen, Andreas (2000). (PDF). CHIME Journal (14–15): 124–153. ISSN 0926-7263. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-02; (about Zhou Xuan). [page range too broad] Also online here at Aarhus University.