This new campaign was described by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and ... Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing, a former actress, and one of her allies were sentenced to death ...

In Shanghai Dolls, Madame Mao’s life story of art, revolution and resentment is undone by clichés - 2/5 This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own p ...

Jiang Qing (19 March 1914 – 14 May 1991), was a Chinese Communist Revolutionary, actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). She was the fourth wife of Mao ...

Read our review of new play *Shanghai Dolls*, starring Gabby Wong and Millicent Wong, now in performances at the Kiln Theatre ...

Read our review of Shanghai Dolls at Kiln Theatre. Directed by Katie Posner, Amy Ng's drama about China's Sun Weishi and ...

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at an audition for Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, and swiftly become ...

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.

An 80-minute two-hander, directed by Katie Posner in a co-production between the Kiln and Paines Plough, it necessarily ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the ... who helped define the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Shanghai Dolls explores the ...