Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Modelworka

This fascinating, informative documentary uses interviews with ballet dancers, actors, fans, artists, a conductor, and a script writer and archival film footage and partial recreations of Yang Ban Xi operas, including The Red Women's Detachment, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, and The White-Haired Girl, to give insight into the political and social environment during the Cultural Revolution when Jiang Qing banned traditional Beijing operas in China.
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