The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on Chinese social media since it ...

The spring of 1967 saw the full flourishing of Mao’s personality cult. Larger-than-life statues of the Great Helmsman sprang ...

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 ...

“An obedient revolutionary, the perfect oxymoron” is how Jiang Qing is described. An actor who sees art as the path to selfhood and escape, she desires recognition – a desire so white-hot ...

Amy Ng’s fascinating but frustrating new play traces the intertwined lives of two enormously significant Chinese women, Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi, mixing fact with imagination. In her account ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It will be us against the world.” The encounter is based on a true story: the starstruck wannabe Lan Ping, who dreams of freedom, goes on to change her name to Jiang Qing and become Madam Mao, wife ...

“She was as docile as Jiang Qing seemed with Mao — an impression I later learned was deceptive in both cases.” Trump, it is said, is working towards a constitutional change that would allow ...

For better or (mostly) worse, Jiang Qing left her mark on the 20th century. Even before she was married to Chairman Mao, Jiang was a charismatic actor, and her passion for culture helped her ...

Amy Ng’s play about the little-known relationship between Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong and Sun Weishi, the first female director in China, is ripe with dramatic potential. But, with so ...

One is the appointment of an outsider, Elon Musk, to lead the assault on the federal bureaucracy, just as Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, was put in charge of his “Cultural Revolution Leading Small ...