Anthem of China+Internationale 1976 Mao’s Funeral (Restored Audio and Video)

--Sources-- --History-- The “March of the Volunteers“,[5][6] is the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China, including its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Unlike most previous Chinese anthems, it is written entirely in the vernacular, rather than in Classical Chinese. Its lyrics were composed as a dramatic poem by the poet and playwright, the Japan-educated Tian Han in 1934 and set to music by Nie Er the next year in Japan for the movie Children of Troubled Times. It was adopted as the PRC’s provisional anthem in 1949 in place of the Republican “Three Principles of the People“ and the Communist “Internationale“. When Tian Han was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the march was briefly and unofficially replaced by “The East Is Red“, then played without words, then played with altered words. Restored to its original version, the “March of the
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