"At the Baoding "Seminar on Cultural Thought" in mid-April 1990, Qu Wei of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra recognized pop music as an ever-present threat. "The bourgeoisie of the West," he warned, "use pop songs to propagate their view of life and value system. We should never underestimate [the danger] of this. Our foreign enemies have not for an instant forgotten that music can change the way people think."(quoted from here).

how lovely... of course, it's not as nice as "the atomic strength of our resolution to achieve the construction of international communist's society" in little red Mao's book, but... eh... i feel so nostalgic sometimes. the time is past and gone when wizards, dragons and party secretaries used to be that palpably present in our lives...