THE YANGBANXI OR CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY OPERAS

Juan Carlos  Moreno-Arrones Delgado

doi:10.21618/fil2633074m

Authors

Juan Carlos Moreno-Arrones Delgado Instituto Cervantes of Beijing

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21618/fil2633074m

Keywords:

Revolutionary literature, Peking opera, yangbanxi, socialism, propaganda

Abstract

The effort undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party to control the arts following its rise to power ultimately reached its peak in the writing of a series of revolutionary operas presented during the 1960s. The only means the Party had to educate the largely illiterate rural and industrial masses was through a form of semiotic art that was not alien to them, as it had been part of their cultural heritage for centuries. In this way, entire theatre companies were organized with the mission of visiting even the most remote areas of the country, repeatedly performing the same works so that every Chinese citizen might understand the new political precepts of the state. What China achieved within a single decade still resonates culturally and thematically in the generation that lived through that period.

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