Yang Tzu-chiung’s Debut Album Banned
楊祖珺首張專輯遭查禁
Source: An Extraordinary Person: Knight-Errant Yang Tzu-chun
From: Taiwan Next Magazine, Issue 365
Date: May 22, 2008Author: Chien Chu-shu
In 1975, Yang Tzu-chun — then a student at Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences (now Tamkang University) — responded to Li Shuang-ze’s call to “sing our own songs” and became a key participant in the campus folk song movement. In 1978, Hsin-ke Records released Yang Tzu-chun’s album Yang Tzu-chun, which was recalled and banned two months later. The reason given was that two songs on the album — “Young China” and “Formosa” — each carried implications related to the unification/independence debate, and thus failed to pass the GIO’s song review system.
Yang Tzu-chun’s banned album (source: Taiwan Good Life E-Newsletter, photo by Kuan Yu)
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