Raid On The White Tiger Regiment
''Raid on the White Tiger Regiment'' (Chinese language, Chinese: 奇袭白虎团) is a Chinese revolutionary opera and one of the eight "model plays" permitted during the Cultural Revolution. Set during the Korean War, it depicts a victory of the Chinese and Korean communists over South Korean and American forces. Production Music for ''Raid on the White Tiger Regiment'' was composed and arranged by Gong Guotai (born 1946), incorporating some aspects of Korean folk music; the script was collaboratively written in 1957 by four members of Shandong Provincial Peking Opera Troupe, and was first performed by members of the People's Volunteer Army. It received its first major staging in 1964 at a national Peking opera festival; it was revised under Mao Zedong's instructions in 1965–66. ''The Cambridge History of China'' noted that continuous revision of the model operas tended to remove any "shades of grey" from the moral depictions of the heroes and villains, and to remove any trace ...
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