Japan - wonderful early-eighties foppish arty types - did nearly an entire album ["Tin Drum"] of songs with references to China: Visions Of China, Canton and Cantonese Boy being the obvious ones.
Canton was the one used as introductory music for nearly every TV piece on 'the mysterious and distant orient' - Wish You Were Here, The Money Programme, that sort of thing - and is probably the most recognisable to a generation of thirtysomethings who grew up before the internet shrunk the world.