Shining Nirvana: The Life of Kurt Cobain

Author: Hao Fang
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: A must-read for 1970s people. – City Weekend (Guangzhou)
A biography of non-mainstream figures by the Department of Non-mainstream Culture, representing non-mainstream culture. – Shopping Guide (Beijing)
It showed Chinese youth another path. – Details (New York)
Hao Fang’s most famous work, praising the “post-20th-century cultural heroes.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Fierce passion, complete combativeness, and abundant linguistic talent. – Music Life (Beijing)
A masterpiece that influenced a generation. – China Business Times (Beijing)
It influenced many Chinese rock youth. – Shanghai News (Shanghai)
Brilliant Nirvana – The Life of Kurt Cobain may be related to personal emotions, but the mediocre Chinese rock scene needs to learn from this extreme approach to understand what makes rock glorious and what makes it tragic. – Economic Observer (Beijing)
A “required textbook” for rock youth. – Beijing Youth Weekly (Beijing)
In Hao Fang’s quiet words, I heard the roaring music, and I felt so close to those bands. – China Reading News (Beijing)
Kurt Cobain is a different kind of hero. In the face of the arrogant and triumphant materialism and consumer culture, he raised the arm of punk rock. He is a boat against the current, a rebellious son with injuries. He pretended not to know that this is a world where everything is measured in cash, and people can no longer adapt to, let alone imagine, another way of life and thinking. At least, our faces have all appeared with the servile smiles of survival. Even the once unrestrained artists no longer dare to throw down the glove of challenge in front of the stern face of livelihood. Everything is like Andy Warhol’s (Andy Warhol) malicious joke: business is the highest form of art. Even the avant-garde protest and radical resistance have been integrated and co-opted by the mainstream, and a rich or moderately prosperous life has become the goal of all hearts...