Reinventing Alternative Rock In China
“Second Hand Rose” is the name of a song Barbra sang in “Funny Girl.” It’s also the name of a Chinese alt-rock band. The New Yorker attended the group’s recent New York concert and put them in context: ‘Over the past decade, China’s alternative-rock scene has grown from marginal, with bands playing shows to a hundred Beijing teen-agers, to a near-mainstream phenomenon, with festivals attracting more than a hundred thousand people.’
