A film version directed by Tieli Xie was released in 1970. Brian Eno, who found a book of postcards from the opera in San Francisco, later used the title on his second solo album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).

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Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (智取威虎山; pinyin: zhì qǔ wēi hǔ shān) was an opera, and one of the eight model plays allowed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The story is based on the novel Lin hai xue yuan (林海雪原) and tells the story of an incident in 1946, during the Chinese Civil War.

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Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (智取威虎山; pinyin: zhì qǔ wēi hǔ shān) was an opera, and one of the eight model plays allowed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The story is based on the novel Lin hai xue yuan (林海雪原) and tells the story of an incident in 1946, during the Chinese Civil War.

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he “original” eight model plays
Beijing operas
The Legend of the Red Lantern
Shajiabang
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
Sweeping the White Tiger Regiment
The Harbor
Ballets
The White Haired Girl Red Detachment of Women
Symphony
Shajiabang

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