The popularity of school songs in China is closely related to the social development of China, its own characteristics and the efforts of earlier music educators.

学堂乐歌在中国兴起的原因与中国社会发展的历史、乐歌自身的特点以及早期教育家主观努力的结果紧密相关；

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In 2006, with his colleague Matthew Salganik, now at Princeton University, he designed a web-based experiment to examine how much social influence determines the popularity of music.

2006年他与当时的同事现在普林斯顿大学的马修·塞尔加尼共同策划了一个网络实验，看看社会影响在多大程度上决定音乐的流行。

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