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The American musician Paul Robeson recorded it in Chinese and English for the 1941 album Chee Lai! Songs of New China. [55] [56] The Army Air Force Orchestra recorded an instrumental version as the theme for Frank Capra's 1944 Why We Fight VI: The Battle of China. The Slovenian group Laibach created an electronic version of the anthem with ...
Nie Er (14 February 1912 – 17 July 1935), born Nie Shouxin, courtesy name Ziyi (子義 or 紫藝), was a Chinese composer best known for "March of the Volunteers", the national anthem of People's Republic of China.
The lyrics (1920) by Zhang Taiyan (章太炎) from the classic "The Song to the Auspicious Cloud" (卿雲歌) from the Book of Documents. The music (1921) by Beijing professor, Xiao Youmei (蕭友梅). The anthem was released in July 1921 by the Department of National Affairs (國務院).
It replaced the "Song to the Auspicious Cloud", which had been used as the Chinese national anthem before. The national anthem was adopted in Taiwan on October 25, 1945 after the surrender of Imperial Japan. Mainland China, being governed by the People's Republic of China today, discontinued this national anthem for "March of the Volunteers".
The national anthem is sung while the flag is being held before raising and the National Flag Anthem is played when the National Flag is raised. [7] When the flag is lowered, only the National Flag Anthem is played. During the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan, the song was introduced as the "National Anthem of Chinese Taipei."
The Song to the Auspicious Cloud (Chinese: 卿雲 歌; pinyin: Qīng Yún Gē; lit. 'Auspicious Cloud Song') was the title of two historical national anthems of the Republic of China. The first version was composed in 1896 by Jean Hautstont, a Belgian composer and esperantist, [1] and was in use from 1913 to 1915 as a provisional anthem.
"Ode to the Motherland" [1] (simplified Chinese: 歌 唱 祖 国; traditional Chinese: 歌 唱 祖 國; pinyin: Gēchàng Zǔguó) is a patriotic song of the People's Republic of China, written and music composed by Wang Shen [2] (王 莘; Wáng Shēn; 26 October 1918–October 15, 2007) during the period immediately after the founding of the ...
Ode to the Motherland – Patriotic song from the People's Republic of China; Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman – 1964 Chinese revolutionary song; Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China – Chinese Communist Party song; The East Is Red (song) – De facto national anthem of the People's Republic of China