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'''"The March of the Volunteers Army"''' ([[Simplified Chinese]]: 义勇军进行曲, [[pinyin]]: Yìyǒngjūn Jìnxíngqǔ) is the [[national anthem]] of the [[People's Republic of China]], written in the midst of the [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]] by the noted poet and playwright [[Tian Han]] (田汉) with music composed by [[Nie Er]] (聂耳).  This composition is a [[March_(music) |musical march]].  

== Origins as National Anthem ==

''March of the Volunteers Army'' was written by Tian Han in 1934 for a play he was writing at the time. Popular stories suggest, however, that he wrote it on a tobacco paper after being arrested in [[Shanghai]] and thrown into a [[Kuomintang]] jail in 1935. The song, with a minor alteration, became the theme song of the patriotic film ''[[Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm]]'' (风云儿女, 1935), a story about an intellectual who leaves to fight in the [[First Sino-J(contracted; show full)

== Cultural Revolution and later history ==

During the [[Cultural Revolution]], Tian Han was imprisoned, and the March of the Volunteers was therefore forbidden to be ''sung''; as a result there was a period of time when [[The East is Red]] was used as the unofficial national anthem. 

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s Army was restored by the [[National People's Congress]] in 1978, but with different lyrics; however, these new lyrics were never very popular and even caused confusion [http://www.gongfa.com/liudashengguojiabiaozhigaige.htm].  On December 4, 1982, the National People's Congress resolved to restore the original 1935 version by Tian Han as the official national anthem.  Significantly the current lyrics do not mention either the [[Communist Party of China]] nor [[Mao Zedong]] and the reversion of the lyr(contracted; show full)
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