This video is from an impromptu Facebook live I did. Here is the thread https://www.facebook.com/share/taMNB4kJrZHXb4z1/?mibextid=WC7FNe
which includes links in comments referenced in the video.
More on China and Ibsen…
"Of course they are targeting artists, because artists are supposed to reflect reality around them and their impressions of it, or even attack it," Wang said. "Now it seems as if they want us to do a U-turn, so that only works that fit in with the national ideology are allowed to be seen."-China Cancels Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' Amid Ever-Widening Censorship https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/censorship-09132018124920.html>https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/censorship-09132018124920.html
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It gets more striking and I would say with no hyperbole, tragic.
Note the date 1928 referenced in this next older article - prior to Mao’s cultural revolution and also prior to socialist realism taking hold under Stalin
From 2006 “Indeed, Ibsen was a household name in China during the tumultuous first decades of the 20th century when intellectuals were striving to create a new Chinese culture. His early dramas, known as "problem plays," influenced numerous Chinese writers; it was at a 1928 conference on Ibsen's work that the Chinese word for spoken drama, as opposed to what had formerly been sung, was first coined. Ibsen's work was equally beloved by social reformers and became closely associated with the quest for individualism and women's rights.”
A root of modernism in China: Ibsen - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/world/asia/15iht-ibsen.2822242.html?smid=em-share
For an even deeper understanding the first episode of a new program called “The War on Memory” on YouTube and Rumble. https://www.youtube.com/live/XbJT14IUcnk?si=_GgQCg0_CNDFp7pR
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