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retaining only the beginning, ending and the spoken portions. "When Will You Return" soon saw high amounts of popularity again upon the release of Teng's cover, after the original version was banned for 30 years due to its controversial lyrics. She additionally recorded an Indonesian version of the song titled "Cinta Suci" during the same year.
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Teng originally re-wrote the lyrics of the original song by Zhou Xuan in 1967. In 1978, Teng chose to re-release "When Will You Return" following the end of the censorship imposed by the Taiwanese government at the time. She discarded the second and third paragraphs of the original four-part lyrics,
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The song was highly popular as well as controversial. The controversy arose due to the various interpretations and political readings of its supposed "hidden" meaning. The lyrics were interpreted as either anti-Japanese, treasonous, or pornographic. After 1949 the song was banned by the People's
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According to Liu Xue'an's son, the tune was written by his father at an undergraduate party at the Shanghai Music Conservatory, during which an impromptu song-composition competition was suggested. Liu wrote the melody quickly, played it as a tango song and won the approval of other students. The
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in the 1960s. He offered a public self-criticism in 1980 before he was rehabilitated, but criticism of the song continued in mainland China for some time as an example of "
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Teng's rendition of "When Will You Return" achieved large amounts of popularity and nearly supplanted Zhou Xuan as "the primary singer identified with this song". In
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because the title would be interpreted as "When will the Red Army/Japanese Army return" (何日軍再來, which 軍 has the same pronunciation as 君, and refers to either the
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director Fang Peilin (d. 1949?) liked the tune, and asked Bei Lin (later identified as Huang Jiamo) to write the lyrics to be used for his new film.
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the following year; Li (aka Yamaguchi Yoshiko) was fluent in both Chinese and Japanese, and also performed Chinese versions.
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Republic of China because it was seen as bourgeois and decadent. The writer Liu was criticized and suffered during the
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The song was originally sung by Zhou Xuan and first appeared as an accompaniment to the film
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Zhu Tianwei 朱天纬 (1990). "Guanyu 'Heri jun zailai' de qianqian houhou 关于〈何日君再来〉的前前后后 ".
518:(2017). A rendition entitled “Waiting for Your Return” by Jasmine Chen and arranged by 407: 259: 1353: 435: 363: 156: 793: 1343: 1331: 673:...台湾当时说邓丽君的《何日君再来》中的"君"是指共产党的军队,因此这首歌是问共军何时再来,所以不准唱..."君"指的是日北军队,被禁理由是"问日本人甚么时候再来" 499: 476: 337: 191: 697: 1017: 488: 391: 309: 263: 138: 599:
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though Taurus Records on April 28, 1993, in support of her compilation album
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through her version, first released on her Mandarin studio album
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Index

Song
Zhou Xuan
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)

Zhou Xuan
Chinese
pinyin
Zhou Xuan
Teresa Teng
Liu Xue'an
Anti-Rightist Movement
Cultural Revolution
Yellow Music
martial law era in Taiwan
Imperial Japanese Army
People's Liberation Army
Taiwan Garrison Command

Single
Teresa Teng
Genre
Pop
Label
Polydor
Composer(s)
Liu Xue'an
Lyricist(s)
Teresa Teng
Mainland China

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