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“Jonathan Campell’s Red Rock tries to unravel the mystery of seemingly impossible scenes taking place in a country where, just a few decades ago, the vaguest hints of Western sympathies could make you politically suspect, even land you on the wrong side of a virulent political campaign. As Campbell aptly puts it, while every aspect of Chinese life has seen rapid development, rock music in particular has charged ahead to the point where if one looks too far back at its history, one ends up ‘staring at an empty patch of land.’” (via Los Angeles Review of Books - Rock & Roll In China)

“Jonathan Campell’s Red Rock tries to unravel the mystery of seemingly impossible scenes taking place in a country where, just a few decades ago, the vaguest hints of Western sympathies could make you politically suspect, even land you on the wrong side of a virulent political campaign. As Campbell aptly puts it, while every aspect of Chinese life has seen rapid development, rock music in particular has charged ahead to the point where if one looks too far back at its history, one ends up ‘staring at an empty patch of land.’” (via Los Angeles Review of Books - Rock & Roll In China)

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