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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: woman back from Moscow
    sub title: in pursuit of beauty
  name:
    name part: Jin, Ha
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 719 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
  abstract: As a promising young actress, Sun Weishi made the critical decision to pursue her studies in Moscow, with the blessing of her influential adoptive father, Zhou Enlai and Mao himself. The valuable insights she gained there during World War II, most notably the significance of characters' inner lives, would enable her to excel back in China, where she produced works by Chekhov and Gogol, and other socially progressive dramas, such as an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her striking career as China's first female director of modern spoken drama (Huaju) would be derailed with the advent of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, however, which put her once again at odds with an old enemy, Jiang Qing, a fellow actress who schemed her way to the top as Mao's fourth and final wife. Through the decades-long rivalry between these two complex women, and their differing approaches to the men in power who shaped their lives, Ha Jin deftly explores the ideals of communism and the reality of the Chinese Communist Party. At the same time, the novel captivates us with Sun Weishi's personal struggles and triumphs, as she navigates friendship, love, art and politics amid the great events of the twentieth century.
  note: Ha Jin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zhongguo gong chan dang
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Theatrical producers and directors
    geographic: China
    genre: Biography
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Communism
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3560.I6 W66 2023
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9781635423778
  identifier: 1635423775
  identifier: 9781635423785
  identifier: 2023006309
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230424
    record change date: 20240131192407.9
    record identifier: in00004765986