Sisters of Yinan
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-26 07:17
Chinese ballet, inspired by the wartime contribution of the local women of East China, will premiere in April, Chen Nan reports.
The National Ballet of China premiered its production of Ode to the Yimeng Mountains in Beijing in May 1973, as a tribute to the residents of Yinan county in East China's Shandong province who supported Communist troops during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the following civil war (1945-49).
The local women, known as the "Red Sisters", not only helped these soldiers by making shoes and clothes for them, but sometimes even sacrificed their lives to protect them.
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