China in Your Hand

"China in Your Hand" is a song by English pop group T'Pau from their debut studio album, Bridge of Spies (1987).

In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 11th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV,[2] and in 2017 was chosen by The Daily Telegraph as one of the 21 best power ballads.

This is more readily heard on the longer album version of the song, as the re-recorded single edit omits most of the more obvious references to the book.

[4] In a segment on the BBC1's The One Show on 6 March 2014, Carol Decker explained that she had been holding a china tea cup belonging to Ronnie Rogers' mother in her hand while washing up and had felt a lump in the bottom.

Judge Gary Barlow said it was "nice to hear the song being sung in tune for once", in mockery of Decker, who reacted to the comment via Twitter.