Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (Chinese: 海瑞罢官; pinyin: Hǎi Ruì bà guān; Wade–Giles: Hai3 Jui4 Pa4-kuan1) is a theatre play, written by Wu Han (1909-1969)...
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the Ming dynasty, remembered as a model of honesty and integrity in office. Hai Rui, was born in Haikou City, Hainan on January 23, 1513. His father died...
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Wu Han (historian) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
play he wrote about an upright Ming dynasty official called Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, which was widely understood as an anti-Mao allegory. His political...
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16 May Notification (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Beijing Opera play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office.: 312–315 The play depicts an honest official of the Ming Dynasty named Hai Rui, who reverses unjust...
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Zhou Xinfang (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Hai Rui, a Ming Dynasty official noted for his integrity but was dismissed from office for criticizing the Jiajing Emperor. Zhou wrote the play Hai Rui...
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realms. In 1965 the Group commissioned a study of the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, written by Vice-Mayor Wu Han, which came under suspicion for...
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Cultural Revolution Group (category Articles with unsourced statements from May 2024)
of other radicals for making an academic debate on the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office into a political one (a move which Mao had started encouraging)...
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Yao Wenyuan (category Articles with unsourced statements from June 2024)
Chunqiao. His article "On the New Historical Beijing Opera 'Hai Rui Dismissed from Office'", published in Wenhuibao on November 10, 1965, launched the...
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Gang of Four (category Articles needing additional references from October 2018)
writing published an article in Wenhuibao criticizing the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office. The article argued that the opera was actually a sympathetic...
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Tian Han (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Criticism of this play, along with two other historical plays (Hai Rui Dismissed from Office by Wu Han and Li Huiniang by Meng Chao), were the opening salvos...
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Chinese opera (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
attack on Beijing deputy mayor Wu Han and his historical play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office as anti-Mao, signaled the beginning of the Cultural Revolution...
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Red Guards (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
1966. The students believed that the criticism of the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was a political issue and needed greater attention. The group...
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Cultural Revolution (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October 2023)
published a historical drama entitled Hai Rui Dismissed from Office. In the play, an honest civil servant, Hai Rui, is dismissed by a corrupt emperor. While Mao...
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1965 in literature (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
publishes a review of a Beijing Opera production of Wu Han's Hai Rui Dismissed from Office in the Shanghai daily newspaper Wenhui Bao, claiming the drama...
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Kang Sheng (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
the Vice Mayor of Beijing and the author of the 1961 play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office. As Yang Jisheng observes: As a leading Ming historian within...
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Democracy Wall (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
From November 1978 to December 1979, thousands of people put up "big character posters" on a long brick wall of Xidan Street, Xicheng District of Beijing...
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1961 in literature (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Tennessee Williams – The Night of the Iguana Wu Han – Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (海瑞罢官, Hǎi Ruì bà guān) August Derleth editor – Fire and Sleet and Candlelight...
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Wu Xiaoyan (category Use dmy dates from August 2023)
published an article "On the New Historical Beijing Opera 'Hai Rui Dismissed from Office'" on Wenhui Bao, attacking Wu Han's opera play. Since 16 May...
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any "shades of grey" from the moral depictions of the heroes and villains, and to remove any trace of "bourgeois" behaviour from the heroes. July 1953:...
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Wang Xizhi (category Use dmy dates from May 2024)
1966 as critics shifted their focus to other works such as Hai Rui Dismissed from Office. Guo's claim that clerical script would have been used exclusively...
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Ten Major Relationships (category Articles that may contain original research from February 2024)
had already approved the criticism of the historical drama Hai Rui Dismissed from Office which was considered the preparation for initiating the Cultural...
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Beijing Daily (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
From 1963 to 1966, the newspaper did not cooperate with the Gang of Four. It refused to reprint Yao Wenyuan's criticism of Hai Rui Dismissed from Office...
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staging of Hai Rui Dismissed from Office is often considered as a catalyst for the start of the Cultural Revolution. The company's box-office gross per...
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Qi Benyu (category Politicians from Weihai)
on 8 December 1965, following Yao Wenyuan's "Criticism of Hai Rui Dismissed from Office", he published the article "Study History for the Revolution"...
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Jianying Documents Bombard the Headquarters Quotations from Chairman Mao Hai Rui Dismissed from Office May 16 Notification Six Articles of Public Security...
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came under sharp criticism from literary critic Yao Wenyuan, who attacked Wu's popular opera, Hai Rui Dismissed from Office as having a subversive meaning...
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On the Docks (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
On the Docks (Chinese: 海港; pinyin: hǎi gǎng) is a Chinese revolutionary opera and one of the eight model plays available during the Cultural Revolution...
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April 1966 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
critic Qi Benyu, titled "On the Essence of 'Han Rui Scolding the Emperor' and 'Hai Rui Dismissed from Office'", in what would be a prelude for the Party's...
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Li Xifan (category Writers from Beijing)
Qing asked Li to write a political criticism of Wu Han's play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, and Li declined. The piece was ultimately written by Yao Wenyuan...
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History of Beijing (category Articles with dead external links from April 2017)
the deputy mayor of Beijing and historian, whose book Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, adapted from a Peking opera about an incorruptible Ming-era official...
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