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Ma Jianling
Opera dramatist from Mizhi, Shaanxi, named a People's Artist by the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region in 1944, and author of A Feud of Blood and Tears and other plays.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Ma Feidiao · Zi Jianling
Ma Jianling (1907–1965), from Mizhi, Shaanxi, was an opera dramatist. In 1944 the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region named him a People's Artist. He wrote A Feud of Blood and Tears and other plays, and adapted the traditional plays Touring West Lake and Touring Turtle Hill. He served as deputy head of the Culture Department of the Northwest Military and Administrative Committee and head of its opera reform division, and as president of the Shaanxi Opera Research Institute. He died in 1965.
Life and times
- 1907Born
Qing
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1965Died
Works
Stage · Plays2- Touring West LakeOlder text undated; Ma Jianling's 1953 versionA Qinqiang play grown from the Ming chuanqi The Red Plum Blossoms, its scenes widely performed
- The Orphan of Zhao (Qinqiang)Ma Jianling's 1954 versionAdapted by Ma Jianling in 1954 and first staged by the Qinqiang troupe of the Shaanxi Opera Research Institute