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Liu Liangmo (Chinese: t 劉良模, s 刘良模, p Liú Liángmó) (6 November 1909 – 8 August 1988) was a musician and Chinese Christian leader known for his promotion of the patriotic mass singing movement in the 1930s and promotion in the United States of support for China's resistance to Japan in World War II. He was a leader in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) after 1949.
Liu was born between November 11, 1908, and November 9, 1909, in Zhenhai County (now Ningbo), Zhejiang province. His family was poor.
Liu's father died when he was 18 months old. His mother worked to send Liu and his older brother Liu Liangtza to school.
Liu became a scholarship student and attended the Baptist Minqiang Academy in Shanghai and the Middle School Affiliated to the University of Shanghai from 1922 to 1928. Liu was active in the student union and contributed essays to the school journal. He won second place in a national essay competition presided over by Ma Yinchu on the topic of defeating opium addiction.
While in middle school Liu converted to Christianity and soon became a student secretary (organizer) for the Shanghai YMCA. From 1928 to 1932, he attended University of Shanghai, a Baptist missionary institution, where he did not receive formal musical training but sang in the university church choir. During his time at University of Shanghai, the family's finances worsened. Liu supported his studies with a scholarship, a student loans, part-time jobs, and some royalties from his essay-writing. Liu graduated in 1932 with a degree in sociology with honors.
Liu began worker as a social worker. He then took a position with the Chinese National YMCA.
China did not have a tradition of mass choruses, but Christian church congregations and mission student groups had begun to use music as an attraction as early as the 19th century. Inspired by an American book which discussed the use of community song, Music United People, Liu began teaching mass singing to improve wartime morale and promote national unity. Liu declared “My plan was to make music the possession of all and not the privilege of the few.” In February 1935, with encouragement from the YMCA, Liu established a mass singing club for some sixty clerks, doorkeepers, office boys, elevator operators, and apprentices. Within a week, the number of participants had nearly tripled, and by mid-1936 the group, known as the People's Song Association, had attracted more than 1,000 members, with regional branches in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Liu wrote in 1935
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Liu Liangmo (Chinese: t 劉良模, s 刘良模, p Liú Liángmó) (6 November 1909 – 8 August 1988) was a musician and Chinese Christian leader known for his promotion of the patriotic mass singing movement in the 1930s and promotion in the United States of support for China's resistance to Japan in World War II. He was a leader in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) after 1949.
Liu was born between November 11, 1908, and November 9, 1909, in Zhenhai County (now Ningbo), Zhejiang province. His family was poor.
Liu's father died when he was 18 months old. His mother worked to send Liu and his older brother Liu Liangtza to school.
Liu became a scholarship student and attended the Baptist Minqiang Academy in Shanghai and the Middle School Affiliated to the University of Shanghai from 1922 to 1928. Liu was active in the student union and contributed essays to the school journal. He won second place in a national essay competition presided over by Ma Yinchu on the topic of defeating opium addiction.
While in middle school Liu converted to Christianity and soon became a student secretary (organizer) for the Shanghai YMCA. From 1928 to 1932, he attended University of Shanghai, a Baptist missionary institution, where he did not receive formal musical training but sang in the university church choir. During his time at University of Shanghai, the family's finances worsened. Liu supported his studies with a scholarship, a student loans, part-time jobs, and some royalties from his essay-writing. Liu graduated in 1932 with a degree in sociology with honors.
Liu began worker as a social worker. He then took a position with the Chinese National YMCA.
China did not have a tradition of mass choruses, but Christian church congregations and mission student groups had begun to use music as an attraction as early as the 19th century. Inspired by an American book which discussed the use of community song, Music United People, Liu began teaching mass singing to improve wartime morale and promote national unity. Liu declared “My plan was to make music the possession of all and not the privilege of the few.” In February 1935, with encouragement from the YMCA, Liu established a mass singing club for some sixty clerks, doorkeepers, office boys, elevator operators, and apprentices. Within a week, the number of participants had nearly tripled, and by mid-1936 the group, known as the People's Song Association, had attracted more than 1,000 members, with regional branches in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Liu wrote in 1935
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