Tangwai movement
Li Shuangze, who was "a charismatic and heroic singer" and a Tangwai movement (dangwai 黨外) "activist," reached many university students. In the exuberant words of a young music critic writing in the "Tamkang Times", he "shook the youth of his generation" out of their political passivity and cultural submission to Americanized tastes in music. He did so "by ... smashing a Coca-Cola bottle on the stage," shouting, "Why don't you sing your own songs? Sing your own songs!" before he started to sing during "a Tamkang Western Music Concert in 1976" – in Chinese! Obviously, he had been "taunting the audience(...)" because up to this point they had kept "favoring western songs."