Rock 'N' Roll on the New Long March is a 1989 album by Cui Jian

Cui Jian

Cui Jian is a Beijing-based Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist. Affectionately called "Old Cui" , he is considered to be a pioneer in Chinese rock music and one of the first Chinese artists to write rock songs...

, the so-called "Father of Chinese Rock". It is technically his second album (an album called Prodigal Son's Return, , was released in 1984 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 and Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 only), but he considers it his first and does not acknowledge the previous one. It is Cui's most successful album, and is considered China's first rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 album. It also features "Nothing to My Name

Nothing To My Name

"Nothing to My Name" is the English title of a 1986 Mandarin-language rock song by Cui Jian. It is widely considered Cui's most famous and most important work, and one of the most influential songs in the history of the People's Republic of China, both as a seminal point in the development of...

" , the song that made Cui famous and which is considered to mark the beginning of rock music in China.

Cui made the album in cooperation with the band ADO, and it was the only album he released while he was still with them. In a review published in China Information, Woei Lin Chong considers it Cui's "most impressive recording". This album, along with the success already enjoyed by "Nothing to My Name", established Cui as a symbol of the "angry youth" movement in China.

Track list

1. "Rock 'N' Roll on the New Long March"
2. "No More Disguises"
3. "Let Me Sleep"
4. "Greenhouse Girl"
5. "Fake Monk"
6. "Do It All Over Again"
7. "Stepping Out"
8. "Nothing to My Name
   Nothing To My Name
   "Nothing to My Name" is the English title of a 1986 Mandarin-language rock song by Cui Jian. It is widely considered Cui's most famous and most important work, and one of the most influential songs in the history of the People's Republic of China, both as a seminal point in the development of...
   
   "
9. "It's Not That I Don't Understand"

An almost identical album called Nothing to My Name was released in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 the same year; it did not include the song "Rock 'N' Roll on the New Long March". In 1999 a second edition of the album was released, by Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

-based Jinggwen Records, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the album.