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Liu Lanfang
Pingshu storyteller who joined the Anshan Quyi Troupe in 1959; her long cycle The Story of Yue Fei was first broadcast by Anshan People's Radio Station on 1 September 1979 and relayed by 66 stations within a year.
Mural of the event “Storytelling Reaches the Radio”, which this person took part in.
In 1979 the arts department of Anshan People's Radio Station asked Liu Lanfang to record a traditional pingshu cycle. She chose The Story of Yue Fei and, with a collaborator, rewrote its script from an outline passed down by an elder and a copy of Jingzhong Shuo Yue, performing in the teahouse by day, writing in the evening and recording at the station in the morning. On 1 September 1979 Anshan People's Radio Station first broadcast the cycle; within a year 66 stations across China were relaying it, and more than a hundred broadcast it in all. At half past twelve and half past six households gathered round their radios, and in many places transistor radios sold out.
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Liu Lanfang was born in 1944 and is a pingshu storyteller. In 1959, at fifteen, she passed the entrance test of the Anshan Quyi Troupe. In 1979 the arts department of Anshan People's Radio Station asked her to record a traditional pingshu cycle, and she chose The Story of Yue Fei. A radio recording could not add small episodes on the spur of the moment as a teahouse performance could, so a script was needed; with a collaborator she rewrote the cycle from the outline handed down to her and a copy of Jingzhong Shuo Yue, performing in the teahouse by day, writing at night and recording at the station on mornings whenever a few episodes were ready. The cycle was first broadcast by Anshan People's Radio Station on 1 September 1979; within a year 66 stations across China were relaying it, and more than a hundred stations went on to broadcast it. She later wrote and broadcast more than thirty further cycles, among them The Generals of the Yang Family and Dream of the Red Chamber.
Life and times
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Modern Era1944 CE– - 1979Storytelling Reaches the Radio
Took partOn 1 September 1979 Anshan People's Radio Station first broadcast Liu Lanfang's long pingshu cycle The Story of Yue Fei; within a year 66 stations across China were relaying it, and more than a hundred stations broadcast it in all.- Liu Lanfang's Yue Fei Storytelling BroadcastIn 1979 Anshan People's Radio Station first broadcast Liu Lanfang's long storytelling cycle The Story of Yue Fei, which more than a hundred stations across China went on to air.
- Liu Lanfang's Yue Fei Storytelling Broadcast
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