In 1967 at the beginning of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Jiang declared eight works of performance art to be the new models for proletarian literature and art. These model dramas, or yangbanxi, The inclusion of ballets Btzimtzo Nü (White-Haired Girl) and Hongse Niangzijun (Red Detachment of Women) and the “Revolutionary Symphonic Music” Shajiabang among the main eight works is only one indication of how the yangbanxi associated with Jiang Qing were novel in their specific blending of elements from Chinese and Western opera, dance, and music. During Richard Nixon's visit to China

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