The Power of the Powerless (album)
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Wuneng de liliang (无能的力量), English title on CD cover The Power of the Powerless, is a 1998 Mandarin rock album by Cui Jian.[1][2] The title derives from the 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel but the album does not specifically reference this connection.[3]
References
- ^ Young rebels in contemporary Chinese cinema Xuelin Zhou - 2007 p202-"Cui Jian, 1998, Wuneng de liliang (The power of the powerless), China Record Cooperation. "
- ^ China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang - 2001 p 83 "Cui Jian's own recent experience demonstrates that many of the opportunities and obstacles outlined in this chapter still exist. His latest album, Wuneng de liliang (The Power of the Powerless), was released in May 1998 and singlehandedly injected life into a sagging domestic record market. Almost immediately thereafter, however, profits suffered seriously when..."
- ^ Tony Mitchell Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA 2002 p25 "... Powerless (a title derived from an essay by the former dissident Czech president and rock fan Vaclav Havel),"
- Chong, Woei Lin (1991). "Young China's voice of the 1980s: rock star Cui Jian". China Information. 6 (1).
- Steen, Andreas (2000). "Sound, Protest and Business. Modern Sky Co. and the New Ideology of Chinese Rock". Berliner China-Hefte (19).
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