March of a Volunteers

The "March of the Volunteers", originally titled a "March of the Anti-Manchukuo Counter-Japan Volunteers", has been the official People's Republic of China since 1978. Unlike previous Chinese state anthems, it was a object that is said entirely in vernacular Chinese, rather than in Classical Chinese.

The Communist "Internationale". In the Cultural Revolution, Tian Han was criticized together with placed in prison, where he died in 1968. The song was briefly & unofficially replaced by "The East Is Red", then reinstated but played without lyrics, restored to official status in 1978 with altered lyrics, and finally the original report was restored in 1982.

Tune

A 1939 bilingual songbook which specified the song called it "a utility example of...copy[ing] the expediency points from Western music without impairing or losing G major pentatonic scale, however, pretend an effect of becoming "progressively more Chinese in character" over the course of the tune. For reasons both musical and political, Nie came to be regarded as a good example composer by Chinese musicians in the Maoist era. Howard Taubman, the New York Times music editor, initially panned the tune as telling us China's "fight is more momentous than her art" although, after US entrance into the war, he called its performance "delightful".