Dr. Alyce Su, a prominent investment executive and Chief Investment Officer of a global family office, has unveiled a comprehensive musical project that reinterprets the legacy of General Zhang Youxia, former Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission. The catalog, released under the artist name AlyceSu and available on Apple Music, comprises 86 songs across 11 albums, blending military history, strategic technology, artificial intelligence, computing, and family memory into a unified body of conceptual music.
The project's core theme, 'The World Represented by General Zhang Youxia', is a narrative arc that spans from 20th-century battlefields to 21st-century computational infrastructure. Albums like Zhurihe open with General Zhang's association with Asia's largest mechanized proving ground, while Love, East Wind delves into China's Dong Feng missile lineage, invoking systems such as the DF-17 and DF-41. The song 'Among the Stars' even draws from SpaceX's investor prospectus, creating an unexpected bridge between China's military-space tradition and contemporary commercial space ambitions.
Dr. Su's inspiration is deeply personal. Her great-grandfather, Su Lianqing, was part of the Guangxi military tradition associated with Cai E, while the Zhang family followed a parallel military path through Zhang Haoru and Zhang Zongxun. The Bai family adds another layer: Bai Chongxi, a significant figure in Su family history, and his son Pai Hsien-yung, who immortalized the Republican-era diaspora in literature. This Su–Bai–Zhang constellation is not presented as a simple political alignment but as a multigenerational archive of divergent yet interconnected trajectories.
The project's significance lies in its unique perspective: a fourth-generation descendant re-encoding a century of military inheritance, war, and technological transformation through music. Dr. Su's professional life in capital allocation and her artistic preservation of legacy form an unusual parallel. The music asks how inherited history can be reinterpreted through the technological, financial, and cultural language of the future.
Dr. Su's work has been recognized in financial circles, earning her a spot among Leaders of Influence: Banking & Financing 2026 by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Her book, China 2010, is ranked No. 1 in financial engineering on Amazon.
The catalog, from Zhurihe to Love, East Wind, traces a single arc from military power to strategic technology, capital, nation, history, and legacy. It is not a biography of General Zhang but an attempt to write the world he represented—a world that extends from war to compute, from family to capital, and from the 20th century to the 21st.
