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Wang Wenjuan
Yue opera dan performer, founder of the Wang school, who played Lin Daiyu in the 1962 Yue opera film Dream of the Red Chamber
Backstage of a theatre troupe, an open trunk spills embroidered red and blue robes, one worked with a phoenix, beneath a jewelled headdress with long plumes; a mirror stand, a stool and a row of painted drums stand beside it, with a red curtain hanging at the right.
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Wang Wenjuan was born in Sheng county, Zhejiang, in 1926 and began learning Yue opera under Zhu Su'e in 1938, first in young male roles and then as a huadan. Her style in the female roles became known as the Wang school. She created Lin Daiyu in the Yue opera Dream of the Red Chamber in 1958 and played her again in the 1962 film, opposite Xu Yulan's Jia Baoyu; in 1959 she starred in the Yue opera film Chasing the Fish. Her repertoire also included The Tale of Chunhyang, Empress Wu Zetian, The West Garden and Meng Lijun. In 1961 she married the actor Sun Daolin. She died in Shanghai in August 2021.
Life and times
Dates 1926 CE–2021 CE