Taking the Tiger Mountain Movie.
This movie, like most Chinese war movies, is based on the true story that really happened, and it was based on the one chapter in the memoir of battle hero, the scout company commander. This movie is a classic of the Cultural Revolution era because virtually everything can be criticized and [...]

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A compile of original model play sections was aired for the first time after the Cultural Revolution on a national televion network to mark the 40th annuverary of the end of World War II. But political issues still influenced the performing of some model players who had had close relationships with the Gang of Four [...]

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For example, “Sha-Jia-Bang” was originally called “The Sparks in the Reed Marshes”, which was an adoption from a play in Shanghai Opera. There were other modern plays such as “Dai-Nuo”, a story of a young minority doctor, “Jian-Gan River”, a story of a Beijing suburb village with a sense of class struggle, “The Sixth Gate”, [...]

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As a way of the efforts to rescue Beijing Opera in recent years, the model plays were touched again by some Beijing Opera performing troupes. Tianjin Opera Troupe made a tour to Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong with some modern plays including the “Takeover of Wei-Hu Mountain”. A modified version (actually the version before it [...]

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