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Brian Eno - "Taking Tiger Mountain"

Glorious Triumph of People's Revolutionary Art



The modern revolutionary Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", carefully revised, perfected and polished to the last detail with our great leader Chairman Mao's loving care, now glitters with surpassing splendour.

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is one of the outstanding model theatrical works. It describes an episode in the great Chinese People's War of Liberation, a battle in which a pursuit detachment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army wiped out a Kuomintang die-hard gang in northeast China. The opera creates the brilliant images of Yan Tzu-jung and other proletarian heroes by the method of combining revolutionary realism with revolutionary romanticism, and eulogizes Chairman Mao's great thought on people's war. The successful creation of the modern revolutionary Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is a splendid victory for Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on literature and art.


Scene One:
In accordance with Chairman Mao's directive: "Build stable base areas in the Northeast", the regimental Party committee of a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army sends out a detachment to round up a die-hard gang of Kuomintang bandits.




Scene Ten:
Using his revolutionary wisdom and courage, Yang Tzu-jung puts the bandit Luan Ping to death, thereby eliminating another danger.