Shajiabang (opera)

Shajiabang (Chinese: 沙家浜, also Shachiapang);[1][2] first produced under the title Sparks Amid the Reeds,[3] is a Chinese revolutionary opera and one of the eight "model plays" permitted during the Cultural Revolution.

[9] Jiang Qing (Mao's wife, a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution), insisted that the role of the Red Army political commissar be expanded.

[10] The dance routines were also revised, the opera not reaching its final form until 1970.

Sister Aqing runs a teahouse visited by officers of a Chinese collaborationist group; unbeknownst to them, she is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and is helping wounded soldiers of the New Fourth Army who are hiding in the marshes.

"[14] An exhibition hall of Shajiabang's revolutionary history was opened in 1988, and expanded in 2006.