Beijing Opera, communist-style

[Reiner Torheit]

Since we are invited to submit pieces about the music of China, The WASHINGTON POST has a piece about "Jiang Jie", a "Beijing Opera" (itself a controversial term - no such term exists in Chinese) composed to fit the dictums of Maoist communism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061402654.html