I have two weapons: one is my pen, the other is my baton.
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Born in Macau in 1905, Xian Xinghai
Born in Macau in 1905, Xian Xinghai was a pioneer of modern Chinese music. The first Chinese student admitted to the Paris Conservatory's senior composition class under Paul Dukas, he returned to China and used music as a weapon in the resistance against Japan. His Yellow River Cantata is the most famous classical music work in China. He composed over 300 works spanning symphonies, concertos, choral works, and songs. He died of tuberculosis in Moscow in 1945, aged forty.
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