What is the history of Chinese pop Music?

The term of Chinese pop music, usually known as C-POP in china came from the late

1920s when a man named Buck Clayton brought the jazz influence to shanghai. Shanghai was

the main hub of C-pop when it first started. Now the center of Chinese pop music are Hong

Kong and Taiwan, not mainland China. Some people believe that a song called The drizzle

was the first Chinese pop song out around 1927. When the Chinese civil war was going on C-pop

was seen as a leftist distraction, when it was banned they also called it poison. The peoples

Republic of china labeled the genre of Chinese pop music Yellow Music , yellow is the color

used for pornography. Later on the Shanghai pop music industry took Chinese pop music into

their hands and produced it in Hong Kong and called it cantopop. Then after cantopop

Mandopop later developed. Chinese pop music is an mixture of jazz, rock, soul and electronica

music. There are three main sub genres there is, Cantopop, Mandopop, and Hokkien Pop.

Cantopop music is a genre of the cantonese music and the music is primarily made in Hong

Kong. Mandopop and Cantopop is very similar to each other but mandopop is sung in mandarin.

Hokkien pop is mainly produced in the Taiwan area. Sometime people say that C-pop favors

K-pop, know as Korean pop music. Today, pop music is dominated by boy bands and young

kids, they own the top of the charts.