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May 4th, 2008 Stanford Dinkelspiel Auditorium --USA

May 3th, 2008 San Jose Convention Center, South Hall --USA

"Evening of The Times", Cui Jian's Concert come to the first stop of the National Tour cities——Chengdu, April 26, 2008.

. Straightforward, profound, and each note was filled with the power of hitting soul. "Evening of The Times"——Cui Jian’s concert presented at Sichuan Gym in Sichuan province. The rock and roll he brought still like a knife, the fans at the scene were extremely excited. In the three hours long performance, someone was waving a red flag all night long. The performance won thundering applause and Cui Jian gave twice encores at the request of the audience. Li Donghua, Olympic champion, as the important "element of Chengdu", also brought a lot of surprises for the fans!

 
Evening of the Times 2008——Cui Jian's personal concert which is also the first concert in Beijing and 2008——the Olympic year, showed at Beijing Workers Palaestra passionately on January 5 evening, 2008. Cui Jian syncretized the Brazilian Samba and modern dance together in his concert which had aroused strong reaction from audience. Some directors such as Jiang Wen, Gu Changwei and Zhang Yang etc, were presented to boosting him. In the almost 3 hours performance, the scene that the whole audience sang all together appeared time and again. When Cui Jian performed his classical songs such as "A Piece of Red Cloth", "Greenhouse Girl", "Let Me Go Wild in the Snow" and "Fake Monk", it is nearly ten thousand audience sang in chorus. The atmosphere arrived at acme when the tune of "I Have Nothing" sounded and Cui Jian returned to stage and at the same time, the entire audience seethed with excitement. Twenty-two years ago, Cui Jian stood at the place which is just as same as today's——Beijing Workers Palaestra and sang the same song——"I have nothing" to marking an epoch in Chinese Rock 'n' Roll. This is the real great significance of such concert. "Starting from scratch" at the initial place, undoubtedly, Cui Jian is showing his great resolution and belief of marking a new epoch to the world.  

December 1,2007,Cui Jian invited to attend Awards evening of the "Chinese Culture" Personality of the Year which was hosted by "Oriental Morning Post" in Shanghai. Cui Jian won the Special Award of Music Culture, and his passionate performance with the band showed the charisma of the real music scene for the audience.  
Cui Jian and the band participated in JZFestival which was launched at Tong Yuefang in Shanghai on 7th Oct. 2007.

Oct. 6, 2007, Cui Jian and the band attended Korean Festival at Seoul, Korea.

Cui Jian and his band participated in the 2nd Snow Mountain Festival which was launched on 4th Oct, 2007 at Lijiang in Yunnan province. Five years has passed since the 1st Snow Mountain Festival launched in 2002. Last time, as an organizer and music director, Cui Jian has made a good beginning for the festival and obtained good reputation. This time, Cui Jian express that he would like to be a pure performer and he will pay attention to essential of music.

Cui Jian was invited to attend a program Behind the Headlines with Wen Tao(锵锵三人行) of Phoenix TV on 13th Sep 2007.

Cui Jian was invited to attend the press conference of 2007 Beijing Pop Festival on 30th July, 2007. And he gave an exciting performance in the festival on 9th Sep evening.. The 2007 Beijing Pop Festival featured the best ever lineup to play: “Nine Inch Nails”, the world’s top band; “Public Enemy”, the greatest hip hop group in history; Marky Ramone, the only surviving member of the band “Ramones”which is the originator of the current wave of popular punk; “New York Dolls”, the pioneer of gorgeous rock style; Brett Anderson, the frontman of the “Suede”, etc.. Cui Jian expressed that it would be a good chance to let international musician know about Chinese rock.

On the night of July 28th, 2007, Cui Jian and the band attended Silver Sand Beach Rock Festival. Address: Yueyang, Hunan.

July 8, 2007 evening Cui Jian and his band participated in the 8th Gongliao Hohaiyan Music Festival and gave a grand finale performance. Taiwan Color Music who is the sponsor had invited Cui Jian to attend this festival for eight successive years. With all the twists and turns, this year the formality was gone through finally and Cui Jian was invited successfully. The day of performance with thunderous applause of the whole audience, Cui Jian gave a passionate performance more than one hour. The excited fans had begun to sway their bodies along with the music and the last song “Nothing to My Name” was became the chorus of the whole audience which was quite a shocking scene. When the performance ended, Cui Jian came on stage once again with the continuous encore and sang “Solution” and “Greenhouse Girl”. With the bandsman he said “We love Taiwan”, which painted a perfect ending for the performance.

July 4, 2007 Cui Jian and his band attended the Opening Ceremony of International Women’s Football Tournament 2007 which was held in the Olympic Sports Center in Shenyang.

June 22 and 24, 2007 Cui Jian and his band attended MTV-MOTOROKR concert which was held by the global MTV Music Television and MOTO jointly. This concert took “be original, original singing and original sound” as the norm, and resisted Lip Syncing resolutely to realize the nature of “The return of music”.
Address: Yizhong Stadium (on 22nd evening), Qingdao; Sunny-City (on 24th evening), Chengdu

June 2, 2007 Cui Jian and his band were invited to participate in “The night of Dunhill” party. Address: 798 Arts Center, Beijing.

Michael Learns To Rock pays tribute to Cui Jian by reproducing English version of Cui Jian’s song <I Have Nothing> in 2007. click in

“Shanghai Story”– Cui Jian Unplugged Live
Live!@SGA – Contemporary Classical Series: 8pm, Friday, June 1st, 2007 (Invitation only)

March 25, 2007 Cui Jian and his band attended <Super Concert> of Hunan TV: Sing for the Olympics and Light the Holy Fire. They gave an exciting performance to welcome the olympics.

20:30, March 19, 2007 Cui Jian attended 12nd Hong Kong Independent Short Movie Ceremony

Jan.29,2007, Cui Jian and his band "Get over that day". Address:JZ Club, Shanghai

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09.25.2003 LIFE STYLE (Beijing) Cui Jian --I only pursue the essential thing (Chinese)
09.02.2002 TIME (New York) The New Long Mosh (English)
08.30.2002 SINA.com (Beijing) Interview: Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (Chinese)
08.20.2002 Globe and Mail (Toronto) China's Woodstock Ends On Upbeat Note (English)
08.20.2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) China's 'Woodstock' Overcomes Rain and Altitude (English)
08.20.2002 China Daily (Beijing) 'China's Woodstock' Overcomes Rain and Altitude (English)
09.02.2002 Washington Post (Washington) Reeducation Camp (English)
08.19.2002 KQED (San Francisco) Live From Yunnan (English) audio
08.19.2002 The Australian (Sydney) China's Woodstock Rocks On (English)
08.18.2002 Reuters (London) Thousands Flock To "China's Woodstock" (English)
08.18.2002 BBC (London) In Pictures: China's Woodstock (English)
08.17.2002 Agence France-Presse (Paris) Hills Will Rock at 'Woodstock In Yunnan' (English)
08.17.2002 Reuters (London) Airliner Overshoots Runway' (English)
08.13.2002 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) Shangri-la Rocks To New Beat (English)
08.10.2002 Beijing Music Radio FM 97.4 (Beijing) Interview: Snow Mountain Music Festival audio
05.01.2002 International Music (Beijing) Cui Jian's Future Is Not A Dream (Chinese)
05.01.2002 Musical Instruments (Beijing) Unlimited Technology Unlimited Music (Chinese)
05.23.2002 City Weekend (Beijing) In The Name of The Father (English)
05.17.2002 ????? (Beijing) Cui Jian Will Sing To The End (Chinese)
05.01.2002 Musical Instruments (Beijing) Unlimited Technology Unlimited Music (Chinese)
03.30.2002 Chongqing Economics News (Chongqing) Cui Jian ????? You (Chinese)
03.30.2002 Chongqing Economics News (Chongqing) Actually Cui Jian (Chinese)
03.29.2002 Chongqing Evening News (Chongqing) ????? (Chinese)
03.20.2002 ????? Weekly (Guangzhou) Cui Jian : One With The Times ????? (Chinese)
03.16.2002 New York Times (New York) Chinese Rocker With Ideals Intact Despite Prosperity (English) new!
02.22.2002 Beijing Today (Beijing) Cui Jian Predicts Doom For Live Vocals (English)
02.08.2002 ????? (Beijing) Tianjin Madly Welcomes "Old Cui" On Valentine's Day ????? (Chinese)
02.04.2002 China Capital Times ????? (Beijing) Cui Jian's Old, But Not His Heart (Chinese)
01.12.2002 Chengdu Commercial News (Chengdu) ????? (Chinese)
01.11.2002 New Evening News (Harbin) Cui Jian's Concert ????? (Chinese)
01.20.2002 New Evening News (Harbin) Cui Jian ????? Rock (Chinese)
01.09.2002 New Evening News (Harbin) The Father of Chinese Rock Is Not Powerless (Chinese)
01.07.2002 New Evening News (Harbin) Cui Jian: "Glad You Still Remember Me" (Chinese)
01.07.2002 New Evening News (Harbin) ???? Ice Festival (Chinese)
01.07.2002 Cui Jian Is Not An "Elite Trademark" (Chinese)
10.11.2001 Beijing Evening News (Beijing) Free Style ????? (Chinese)
07.17.2001 Financial Times Deutschland (Berlin) I'm Red, But I'd Like To Be More Yellow (German)
07.17.2001 Die Tageszeitung (Berlin) The Red Muleta (German
07.16.2001 Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) Chinese Firecracker (German)
07.14.2001 Zitty (Berlin) Cui Jian Live at Tempodrom (German)
07.13.2001 Suddeutsche Zeitung (Berlin) Rock 'n' Roll On The New Long March (German)
07.12.2001 Die Zeit (Berlin) Listen To Your Own Voice! (German)
07.10.2001 Le Divan Du Monde Flyer (Paris) A Chinese Rocker In Paris (French)
07.06.2001 Arezzo Love Festival Programme (Arezzo) Introduction to Cui Jian (Italian)
07.01.2001 Sino Korrespondenz (Berlin) Orignator of Chinese Rock (Chinese)
06.10.2001 TIME International (Hong Kong) Pirate Us Plenty, Please! (English)
06.08.2001 City Pictorial (Guangzhou) Family, Hardship, Pain, "Roots and Branches" (Chinese)
06.05.2001 New Express (Guangzhou) Cui Jian On Film Again, It's Being Called a Tear Gas Bomb (Chinese)
05.30.2001 Southern Daily (Guangzhou) Cui Jian, Master of Rock Music, Makes Another Film "Branches and Trees" (Chinese)
05.28.2001 Chengdu Commercial News (Chengdu) "Roots and Branches" - Yesterday Tear Gas Bomb Dropped In Chengdu And Cui Jian's Makes Even The Most Jaded Movie Critics Cry (Chinese)
05.28.2001 Huaxi Metro News (Chengdu) "Roots and Branches" - Tears Flying in Chengdu (Chinese)
05.26.2001 Chengdu Commericla News (Chengdu) "Roots and Branches" - At Movie's Premiere The Sound Of Crying Everywhere, Cui Jian's Performance Moving (Chinese)
05.24.2001 Yangzi Evening News (Nanjing) Singers Cast in "Roots and Branches" (Chinese)
05.24.2001 Shenzhen Commercial News (Shenzhen) "Roots and Branches" Is A Tear Gas Bomb (Chinese)
05.17.2001 Guangzhou Daily (Guangzhou) "Roots and Branches" - Cui Jian Makes You Cry Enough (Chinese)
05.16.2001 Beijing Morning News (Beijing) "Roots and Braches" - Cui Jian's Performance Moving (Chinese)
04.04.2001 Beijing Evening News (Beijing) Cui Jian Fights Lip-Syncing At CD Cafe (Chinese)
04.03.2001 Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing) Cui Jian To Appear At CD Cafe (Chinese)
04.03.2001 Beijing Morning Post (Beijing) Cui Jian Fights Lip-Syncing With Real Singing (Chinese)
04.03.2001 Musical Life (Beijing) Cui Jian To Play Solo Show At CD Cafe (Chinese)
04.01.2001 Rock & Folk (Paris) Useful To The Students (French)
03.27.2001 Television Weekly (Beijing) "Roots and Branches" Soon To Be Released - Cui Jian's Second Movie (Chinese)
03.23.2001 China Actors News (Beijing) In "Roots and Branches" Cui Jian To Play Father of Liang Yongqi (Chinese)
03.18.2001 Changsha Evening News (Changsha) Sinking Your Teeth Into "Roots and Branches" (Chinese)
03.13.2001 Beijing Television (Beijing) Music Is Deep And "Father/Daughter" Roles Fated (Chinese)
03.04.2001 Beijing Morning News (Beijing) Cui Jian On Screen Again (Chinese)
03.01.2001 Weekend Art News (Beijing) Cui Jian in Paris (Chinese)
02.15.2001 Far East Daily (Hong Kong) A Burning Heart - Cui Jian (Chinese)
02.13.2001 South China Morning Post ( Hong Kong) China's Legendary Rock Star Shows His True Colors (English)
02.03.2001 Melkweg Concert Schedule (Amsterdam) China's Rockstar No. 1 (Dutch)
02.02.2001 METRO (Amsterdam) The Pioneer of Chinese Rock Music (Dutch)
02.01.2001 BC Magazine (Hong Kong) Show Your Colors (English)
02.01.2001 City Magazine (Hong Kong) We Won't Forget (Chinese)
02.01.2001 (Hong Kong) First Hong Kong Performance Of Modern Chinese Rock Dance Musical (Chinese)
01.27.2001 Amsterdam Agenda (Amsterdam) Chinese Rockster Cui Jian (Dutch)
01.27.2001 Le Monde (Paris) Rock 'N' Roll Incarnation Of The New Chinese Fraternity (French)
01.26.2001 Zurich Kultur (Zurich) Red Rock (German)
01.26.2001 Kultur (Zurich) China Rock (German)
01.26.2001 Zuritipp (Zurich) Peking's Underground (German)
01.24.2001 Liberation (Paris) The Most Popular Singer In China (French)
01.23.2001 Asiaweek (Hong Kong) Rock Icon's New Colors (English)
01.22.2001 Three Unity Life Magazine # 3 (Beijing) Cui Jian: After Leaving Contradictions Behind (Chinese)
01.22.2001 Three Unity Life Magazine #3 (Beijing) Show Your Colors: Q&A (Chinese)
01.18.2001 Eastweek #430 (Hong Kong) Cui Jian: "Still Okay, Still Cooking" (Chinese)
01.17.2001 City Entertainment #467 (Hong Kong) Cui Jian: " A Memory I'll Never Forget" (Chinese)
01.11.2001 Musical Life (Beijing) Cui Jian Plays Another Small-Scale Show in Beijing (Chinese)
01.01.2001 Pop Song Magazine (Beijing) Cutting Open Cui Jian - 16 pages (Chinese)
01.01.2001 CMM Intelligence (London) China Gets With The Beat (English)
01.01.2001 MILIEU: Le Mensuel de la Chine (Paris) Chinese Bob Dylan (French)
01.01.2001 Prince Claus Fund: ARCHIS (Amsterdam) Cui Jian and Chinese Rock Culture (Dutch / English)
12.13.2000 de Volkskrant (Amsterdam) / Cui Jian Receives The Prince Claus Award (Dutch)
06.01.2000 GQ (New York) / Red Scare (English)

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