Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - A Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera

Published by Foreign Languages Press - Ohashi Institute New York, Peking, 1971

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113 Pages plus Fourteen Un-numbered pages consisting of a Title Page and Three Pages of Mao Tsetung quotes in red text and 10 pages of color photographs from each of the Ten Scenes in the Opera. This work is a dramatic musical about Revolutionary Communist China published in 1971 by the People's Republic of China disguised as The Foreign Languages Press. Contents in 10 Scenes : Advancing in Victory, Chiapi Valley Pillages, Asking About Bitterness, Drawing Up a Plan, Up the Mountain Into the Bandits' Lair, Arousing the Masses, Sending Out Information, Off to the Attack, and Converging on Hundred Chickens Feast. Nine Selected Songs scored in English and Chinese: We Long for the Time When the Sun would Shine over These Mountains, Bring the Land a New Life, We'll Wipe Out the Reactionaries, The Communist, Welcome In Spring to Change the World of Men, We're Worker and Peasant Soldiers, Here Before Us Our Own Army, I've the Morning Sun in My Heart, and My Resolve Is to Fight on the Battlefield. Four Appendices: Notes on the Chinese Percussion Instruments, List of Percussion Instruments, Notes fo the Signs on the Staff, and Key to Chinese Phonetic Symbols. Seller Inventory # 14555

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Title: Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - A Modern...

Publisher: Foreign Languages Press - Ohashi Institute New York, Peking

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good