Mao Mao Yu – Li Minghui

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Mao Mao Yu or ‘Drizzle’ sung by Li Minghui reflects how female singers in China in the 1920s had to do so in a childish voice to avoid accusations of lewdness. Musicologist Simon Zagorski-Thomas talks to author Andrew Jones about the golden age of Chinese jazz and the rise of nationalism which often used popular music to promote the new language of China years before the Cultural Revolution. Produced by Rami Tzabar for BBC World Service. Image: Record label artwork, BBC