Cui Jian in Shanghai

culture - Cui Jian's come back

Shanghaiist has an interesting report about the performance of Cui Jian in Shanghai. When I was hanging out with the cultural elite in Beijing in the first half of the 1990s, Cui Jian was out, seriously out.
"Only foreigners are interested in the only Chinese rock artist they have heard off," I was told. He was then mostly not allowed to perform, but he was considered to be a cultural dinosaur, who was unable to come with anything new after his first successes.
But he seems to have his appeal among the younger generation back:

The place was packed, mostly with Chinese in their 20s and 30s. We saw just a few foreign faces scattered throughout the crowd. Were they curious about who the hell Cui Jian was? Or were they fans like us? We couldn’t miss the opportunity to see the "godfather of Chinese rock" — his songs helped us learn Chinese in high school.

More enthusiasm at Shanghaiist.