This article focuses on the early Republican theater as a popular site of experiments with love;and discusses the significance of pengjue courtship between actresses and male patrons.It argues that while the literati ...
In 1923, Wu Ruiyan, a schoolgirl at the Beijing People's Art Drama School, starred in a play titled Hero and Beauty, written by Chert Dabei. This was the first joint performance of male and female performers in the h...