Jeffrey Brown looks at the opening of "Madame Mao," a new opera performed this summer in Santa Fe. Jiang Ching-- the real woman known as Madame Mao-- was in fact tried in Beijing in 1976, one of the ...

TORONTO—When I was 9 my mother took me to see Philip Glass’s “Koyaanisqatsi.” I lasted 10 minutes before slumber overtook me. I thought, being as how I am all grown up now, that I was ready for my ...

University prof. and composer Bright Sheng set out to tell the compelling story of a woman he had never met, a woman who nevertheless had an impact on the way his life turned out. It is a story of ...

Her birth name was Li Shumeng. When she was a schoolgirl, she changed her name to Li Yunhe. As an actress, she took the stage name Lan Ping. And as a revolutionary, she used the name Li Jin to pen ...

French documentary from 2013. Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing were married for 37 years, from 1939 until Mao's death in 1976. After his death, she was tried and imprisoned where, at the age ...