War on the Plains is one of the Eight Modern Revolutionary Beijing Operas from the Cultural Revolution.
The story is based on the Japanese Resistance in a rural Northeastern Chinese village. A small group of villagers fought gorilla warfare in support of the war against Japan.
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Below is a short video clip from the opera.
Images from inside the book.
Back cover.
War on the Plains is one of the eight Modern Beijing Revolutionary Operas.
A collection of select picture storybooks from 1973. This was a Beijing Middle School library book and still has the library card sleeve on the inside back page. Stories were selected from the National Picture Storybook Drawing Exhibition of China. Each story in the book…
Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon who volunteered to help the People’s Liberation Army in the 1930s. Mao held him up as a model for emulation. See an animated storybook of Norman Bethune here and another collection of storybook pages here.
This piece is displayed in celebration of Women’s History Month. All women, as a group, in all cultures, under all governments deserve equal celebration. There is a little red book of Mao’s quotes like this one. She is wearing a Mao button like this one.…