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by Dou Qian
How to use Baidu (China's most popular search engine) to find modern Chinese music that is attractive to Generation Y people.

The procedure below works well. But, it would be best if you can read Chinese characters. The procedure below works. Try it!

1- Go to [|www.baidu.com] 2- Select "MP3". Note- if you wish a translation of a Baidu page, go to [] and enter the web address of the page you wish to translate, AND select "Chinese simplified to English", then press the translate button.

3- Notice the words in English, "Top 100". Click on any song.

This will give you new web page with a list of the top 100 most popular songs in China today. Also notice that the titles are in Chinese characters. Note- You can NOT translate this page using Babelfish.

4- Click on the **blue** box of any one of the songs.

You will receive a __new web page__ with a list of places where you can audition the song you selected.

5- On the new web page, click on the button of any of the songs listed under the __fourth from the left__ most column with the Chinese characters

You will receive a popular song.

Note- You may translate this page using Babelfish to learn the name of the song in English. But, you cannot click on the "audition" column. You must be in the original Chinese language page.