The Chinese Communist Opera (12 photos)

"Cultural Revolution" that reigned in China from 1965 to 1976, highly politicized all spheres of life and put under the ban not only the music of foreign composers and music written by the Chinese themselves up to that time. Began to create new works, mainly operas and ballets, as they had to demonstrate a new life, the principles of which declared the Communist Party leadership.

Photographer Xinhua Zhang Yasin left to posterity the memory of pictures of scenes from operas, which became a model of the new Chinese art.