The Olympic games in Beijing are shining a new light on China. We often hear and read stories about the country’s growing industrial and economic power, but its culture is less understood in the West. Some Chinese movies make it over to the States, but not as much pop music. At least, not yet.
Musician Sa Dingding is huge in Beijing, and she’s starting to gain some notoriety in the West. She’s been called “the voice of the new China”. She’s 25, fabulously camera-ready, and she’s from a family of Mongolian nomads. She performs in flowing silk robes, and she sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, and a language of her own invention. We spoke with Sa Dingding during a recent visit to the United States.
