Two Stage Sisters
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Two Stage Sisters is a 1964 Chinese drama film produced by Shanghai Tianma Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin, starring Xie Fang and Cao Yindi. Made just before the Cultural Revolution, it tells the
Two Stage Sisters
Yuan Xuefen, the opera expert on whom the character Zhu Chunhua is based and to whom the film pays homage
Yuan Xuefen
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Yuan Xuefen was a noted performer in the Yue opera genre of Chinese opera. She has been called "arguably the most important actress in the recent history of Yueju opera". The only other artist to be r
Two Stage Sisters
…with Hollywood and socialist realist forms. The main protagonist (Zhu Chunhua) is said to be based on the life of Xie Jin's friend and opera-veteran Yuan Xuefen. In 1935, Zhu Chunhua, a young child-bride tongyangxi turned child-widow, takes refuge with an itinerant Yue Opera troupe (the Yangchun Theatre Troupe…
A bust of Yuan Xuefen in her hometown Shengzhou.