Sounds of China

Cultural Revolution

East Is Red《东方红》 [MP3 --- 3.7mb]
From the musical epic: The East is Red

Anthems

The Internationale[MP3 --- 3.7 mb]
Soviet National Anthem [MP3 --- 3.2 mb]
"Gong Jin'ou" (Cup of Solid Gold) (1911-1912) [external link --- midi file]
"China Heroically Stands in Universe" (short-lived Yuan Shikai regime, 1915-1916) [external link --- midi file]
"Qing Yun ge" (The Song to the Auspicious Cloud) [ 1921-28] Also used by the Japanese puppet government of 1935-1941. [external link --- midi file]
"San Min Chu I" (1930-1949) [external link --- midi file]
"Yiyonggjun Jinxingqu" (The March of the Volunteers) People's Republic of China [external link --- midi file]
Manchukuo (Japanese puppet regime) In use: 1933-1942 [external link --- midi file]
Manchukuo (Japanese puppet regime) In use: 1942-1945 [external link --- midi file]
Tibet No precise information on when or how this became the Tibetan anthem, but (of course) not allowed to be played in Tibet. [external link --- midi file]

Speeches

Mao Zedong proclamation毛泽东于公元一九四九年十月一日(October 1, 1949)
Zhou Enlai speech周恩来于公元一九七四年九月三十日(September 30, 1974) [MP3 --- 2.3 MB]

Educational

These are the audo (mp3) files to accompany the text, Elementary English with Tibetan and Chinese Translation
Files provided by Kevin Stuart

abc

ABC Song	lesson 10	lesson 20	lesson 30
lesson 1	lesson 11	lesson 21	lesson 31
lesson 2	lesson 12	lesson 22	lesson 32
lesson3	lesson 13	lesson 23	lesson 33
lesson 4	lesson 14	lesson 24	lesson 34
lesson 5	lesson 15	lesson 25	lesson 35
lesson 6	lesson 16	lesson 26	lesson 36
lesson 7	lesson 17	lesson 27	lesson 37
lesson 8	lesson 18	lesson 28	lesson 38
lesson 9	lesson 19	lesson 29	Review

Namyi Folklore Materials(.wav files): (files provided by Kevin Stuart)

(1) a creation account	(7) a tragedy of a brother and a sister
(2) a story of family clan formation	(8) a hunting story
(3) a Namyi hero	(9) a story of how people came to use tobacco
(4) a religious specialist	(10) two sisters' adventures with a monster
(5) a story of seven daughters' adventures	(11) a story about a rabbit father-in-law and an orphan
(6) 'The Puppy and the Boy'

The original materials were collected from Namyi tellers in Zhequ (Chinese: Dashui) Village and Mu'er Village, Lianhe Township, Mianning County. Libu Lakhi (Zla ba bstan 'dzin, Dawa Tenzin, Li Jianfu, Zachary) transcribed the original material into IPA and rerecorded the material, which is presented here.See: Lakhi, Libu, Brook Hefright, and Kevin Stuart, The Namuyi: Linguistic and Cultural Features, Asian Ethnology, Volume 66, No. 1-2 (2007), pp. 233-253.

For a transcript of these audio materials, see Libu Lakhi, et al. 2009. Asian Highland Perspectives.