''Ayiguli'' (阿依古丽) is a 1966

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composed by Shi Fu and Wusi Manjiang. The libretto follows the script of the film '' Red Flowers on Tianshan'' (Chinese 天山上的红花). It tells the story of the Chinese Kazakh minority

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women's troupe leader Ayiguli, her education of her husband Asihar, and her struggle with

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elements fighting with the masses.''Marxism and aesthetics: a selective annotated bibliography'' Page 25 Lee Baxandall - 1968 BRAGA, Anthony, "'Ayiguli' - A New Operatic Heroine," EH, July 1966, 2 3-24. illus. Close account of a revolutionized Peking opera.

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