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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social

Link to segment theworld.org/segments/202...

aug 9, 2025, 6:27 pm • 7 3

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moansha.bsky.social @moansha.bsky.social

In 1989 I was very surprised to find "Edelweiss" from "The Sound of Music" being very popular in China. Maybe it was also a protest song?

aug 11, 2025, 6:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social

I don’t know about that song, but in the 1989 protests in China, as in some earlier ones, students put new lyrics to Frere Jacques that mocked the authorities

aug 11, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view