Now made in China: hip-hop.

• Position: MUSIC - Brief article

Over the last decade, many students and working-class Chinese have been writing rap as a form of self-expression. Rougher and more rebellious than the well-scrubbed pop music that floods China's airwaves, this kind of hip-hop is not sanctioned by broadcast media producers or government censors. "Hip-hop is free, like rock 'n' roll--we can talk about our lives, what we're thinking about, what we feel," says Wang Liang, 25, a popular D.J. in China, who is known as Wordy. In China, he says, "There's not much...