When Gu Xiong was a youngster growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, he didn’t have much choice about his choice of popular entertainment.
Like hundreds of millions of other Chinese people, Xiong could only watch operas and ballets which had been approved by the Communist Party such as the Red Detachment of Women (above).
During the Cultural Revolution, traditional Chinese opera was banned. In its place, the government created a new kind of ...
