Chen Gexin News Today

From China’s equivalent of All I Want For Christmas is You, by Andy Lau, to Sam Hui’s tune about the God of Fortune, we recall five of the most popular Lunar New Year songs as the Year of the Dragon nears.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into eastern Ukraine in the name of protecting two Russian separatist regions there. Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine breaks international law and breaches Ukraine’s sovereignty. Russian soldiers were reportedly told that they would be welcomed by the Ukrainians as liberators. However, even in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city where ethnic Russians comprise 17 percent of residents, people fight Russian troops br...

And then suddenly, everything kind of makes sense in this new context. The end of WWII Apparently, Gong Xi Gong Xi was written in Shanghai in 1945 to celebrate the defeat of Japan and the liberation of China at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). The composer was Chen Gexin (陳歌辛), who wrote the music and words of the song, and who also went by pen names Lin Mei (林枚) and Qing Yu (慶餘). He was jailed by the Imperial Japanese Army for his patriotic songs during th...