摘要
IN the western suburbs of Bei-jing a very ordinary buildingcomplex shelters an extraordi-nary group of performers:the Cen-tral Nationalities Song and DanceEnsemble(CNSDE).Consisting ofseveral hundred artists from 34 ofChina’s nationalities,the ensemble isthe largest and best-known nationalgroup of performers in China.Birth of MinorityNationalities Song