At the exhibition Rejoicing in Woods and Springs, visitors observe a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) painting depicting Emperor ...

The older one is Lan Ping, later known as Jiang Qing, who would become notorious as Madame Mao, the Chairman’s fourth wife and the Stalinist motor of the Cultural Revolution. Qing is a pragmatic ...

and Jiang Qing, actor and later wife of Mao Zedong, member of the notorious Gang of Four and prime mover in the Cultural Revolution. But what facts are recorded are in themselves extraordinary.

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the future wife of Mao Zedong – rehearsing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Here, she meets Sun ...

With China high on the news agenda, Amy Ng’s play is timely, and though it’s not a great piece of drama it tells a great story briskly and efficiently. Spanning six decades, it tracks the ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the future wife of Mao Zedong – rehearsing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Amy Ng’s new play begins in 1930s China as a starving teenager we will come to know as Sun Weishi (Millicent Wong) stumbles into a theatre where the future Jiang Qing (Gabby Wong) is practicing ...

An improbable bond is formed, which warps and twists but never breaks. Lan transforms into Jiang Qing, Mao’s fourth wife, cultural enforcer and attack dog. Li is revealed to be “red princess” Sun ...

An improbable bond is formed, which warps and twists but never breaks. Lan transforms into Jiang Qing, Mao’s fourth wife, cultural enforcer and attack dog. Li is revealed to be “red princess ...

And by the time the two protagonists change their names and Lan Ping becomes Jiang Qing, third wife of Chairman Mao, they have all but lost their audience and squandered the chance to bring this ...