"Many Peking operas of the past portrayed emperors and kings, generals, ministers, scholars, beauties, lords and dowag…"

"So far as artistic form is concerned, Peking opera has a relatively long history and has attained a relatively high a…"

"Literature and art should serve politics and the development of the productive forces. Now that we are living in a so…"

"What is an emperor? He is a representative of the landlord class, the chieftain of the landlords. What is an empress?…"

"Our country today is the People’s Republic of China led by the proletariat and based on the worker-peasant alliance. …"

"We are historical materialists. We are not indiscriminatingly opposed to staging historical plays. When we oppose put…"

"You work on plays on contemporary revolutionary themes, but if your ideology is not revolutionized you cannot be at o…"

"If we don’t grasp the tasks of class struggle well and of socialist education too, then, it is also possible for revi…"

"Since World War II, the revolutionary struggle of the people of the world has entered a new stage. The rapid growth o…"

"There are many types of plays on contemporary themes. Hollywood is also producing “plays on contemporary themes”; the…"