Sister Jiang

Sister Jiang (Chinese: 江姐; pinyin: Jiāng Jiě) is a 1964 Chinese-language western-style opera based on the real life death of Sichuan revolutionary martyr Jiang Zhuyun.^[1][2][3]

The opera was composed by Yang Ming and Jiang Chunyang^[4] musicians of the art bureau of the Chinese Air Force.^[5][6]

A new film version was made by Zhang Yuan in 2003.

References

1. Chongqing & The Three Gorges - Page 97 Kim Hunter Gordon, Jesse Watson "... including the child Xiao Luobo tou, were executed by gunshot. the dead included Jiang Zhuyun, later known as sister Jiang, who became the most famous of the revolutionary martyrs killed that day, with a revolutionary opera recounting ..."
2. Shades of Mao: the posthumous cult of the great leader - Page 176 Geremie Barmé - 1996 ""Sister Jiang" (Jiangjie) is a pre-1966 opera about the Sichuan revolutionary martyr Jiang Zhuyun. It is based on the novel Red Crag (Hongyan)"
3. World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/ Pacific - Page 140 Series Rubin - 1998 "Western-style opera (also known as High Opera) exists alongside the many Beijing Opera groups. The Central ... Operas of note by Chinese composers include A Girl With White Hair written in the 1940s, Red Squad in Hong Hu and Jiang Jie."
4. A Critical History of New Music in China - Page 346 C. C. Liu - 2010 -"... Jiang jie [Sister Jiang] by Yang Ming and Jiang Chunyang"
5. Daily report: People's Republic of China Page 117 United States. Federal Communications Commission. Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service - 1991 "The modern opera "Sister Jiang" was first produced and performed by the theatrical troupe under the Air Force's political department in the early sixties. It caused a sensation throughout the country. In particular, the song "Ode to The Red ..."
6. Some of us: Chinese women growing up in the Mao era - Page 122 Xueping Zhong, Zheng Wang, Bai Di - 2001 "I always thought a mentor should be more like Sister Jiang, a highly cultured lead female character in a revolutionary opera. Jiang sister is tall with refined manners and wears a dark-blue Chinese qi pao dress and a red scarf draping her"