Teresa Teng

Uh, and the West includes Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

And I remember, uh, this, uh, uber famous, uh, pop singer from Taiwan, Teresa Teng, who was a mega star not just in Taiwan, but in the entire Asia.

Uh, she, she was like, uh, I cannot compare her with any Western pop stars, but she was the number one.

And her songs were banned in China.

There's also another piece, it's called the, uh, you know, um, um, The Moon Representing My Heart.

That piece of music, everybody in the Chinese-speaking world w-would know, is m-immortalized by this Taiwanese, uh, pop star called Teresa Teng, uh, Deng Lijun.

Now, Teresa Teng was, uh, international sensation.

She was no re-ordinary, uh, uh, you know, singer, pop star, and Deng Lijun was a symbol of anti-communism from Taiwan.

And in her, uh, lifetime, she has passed away, uh, a few decades ago, but she was basically, you know, uh, the, the symbol of Taiwan's resi-resistance to communist rule.

She refused to perform in China.

we were not allowed to listen to any other music on radios.

I remember they were insured with radios from Taiwan by this famous folk singer and star, Teresa Teng singing love songs And it was labeled as spiritual pollution and bad songs.

So it's illegal to listen to her songs through shortwave radios.

In school, we were singing red revolutionary songs.