September 1963
(At a work conference of the Centre)
[SOURCE: Long Live Mao Tse-tung Thought, a Red Guard publication.]
Operas should develop what is new from what is old, rather than what is old from what is old. They must not sing only of emperors kings, generals, minister, talented young gentlemen, pretty ladies, and their maid and escorts.
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