Dusting off a classic
By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-17 08:33
A play that offers a new interpretation of writer A Lai's award-winning novel, Settling Dust, is proving popular online, Yang Yang reports.
Recently, Tibetan ethnic writer, A Lai, came to Beijing from Sichuan province to see a new adaptation of his award-winning novel, Settling Dust (also known as Red Poppies), which he first published in 1998 and for which he won the fifth Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2000, the top literary award in China.
The play, starring actor Yu Entai and actress Xu Fan in the leading roles, has been produced as a two-episode online show, the first episode of which has been viewed more than 15 million times on Tencent Video since its release on Dec 10.
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