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He scolds the old man for abusing his own daughter. Unexpectedly, Fragrance defends her father, and recounts her family's plight: they are refugees who have escaped flood, exploitative landlords, and tyrannical government of their hometown. The spectators are deeply moved by her misfortune. At the end, the young man turns to the spectators and exhorts them to resist the oppressive
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Flower-Drum" and does acrobatics on the street. She performs badly because she is weak from chronic hunger. Angry with his daughter's poor performance, the old man raises his whip to punish her. A young man, who is an actor in disguise, charges out from the audience, shouting "Put down your whip!"
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The play was a failure when it debuted on 10 October 1931 in Nanhui. But after its adaptation to a patriotic anti-Japanese play, it became the most influential street play of the Sino-Japanese War, and was performed countless times throughout China during the war. The play was frequently staged by
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of 1935, the play was adapted to take on an anti-imperialist and anti-Japanese theme. Instead of escaping from government oppression and flood, Fragrance and her father now escape the brutal Japanese occupation of
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Originally an anti-government play, it was adapted to take on an anti-Japanese theme after growing Japanese aggression against China. It became the most influential street play during the
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also saw Wang Ying's performance in Singapore and painted his version of the play in 1940, which has become the painter's most famous work.
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A young girl named Fragrance (Xiang Jie) and her old father are poor and homeless street performers. Fragrance sings the folk song "
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has been described in Chinese media as a "spiritual atomic bomb" against the Japanese invaders.
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government: "We must resist those who coerce us to live a life of starvation and homelessness."
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of 1931 when Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria. Other patriotic songs including the "
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After increasing Japanese encroachment into north China, and especially the
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amateur performers as well as many famous stars. The great actress
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War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945
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A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949: The Drama
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For the Xu Beihong painting inspired by the play, see
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even performed an English version of the play in the
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Index

Put Down Your Whip (painting)
The painting Put Down Your Whip by Xu Beihong
Xu Beihong
Wang Ying
Chen Liting
Nanhui County
Manchuria
Chinese
pinyin
street play
Chen Liting
Republican era
Tian Han
Second Sino-Japanese War
White House
President Roosevelt
Wang Ying
Madame Mao
Xu Beihong
eponymous painting
Fengyang
Kuomintang

Zhang Ruifang
Cui Wei
December 9th Movement
Manchuria
September 18 Incident
March of the Volunteers
Nanking Massacre

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