His play 'Hai Jui's Dismissal' and its role in China's Cultural Revolution
by
Clive Ansley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People's Republic, he was the eighth-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party, and his Peking Opera Hai...