A CCTV talent show features three foreigners with a yen for Chinese songs that recall the fervor of the revolution. Sun Li reports.

They are the surprise guests of Show Me First, a popular talent show on China's national television station, CCTV. They are not Chinese, but sing in Mandarin, and love performing "red songs", or revolutionary songs composed to extol the homeland and the Communist Party of China.

Keson Bernard Tinker is a postgraduate student of business management at Shanghai's Donghua University.