The Chengdu Concubine - Revision history

Ome: Fixing map display - removed openLayer configs

2023-12-22T16:57:00Z

Fixing map display - removed openLayer configs

Pam at 22:37, 29 November 2015

2015-11-29T22:37:51Z

Pam at 22:24, 22 November 2015

2015-11-22T22:24:25Z

Pam at 00:26, 3 October 2015

2015-10-03T00:26:37Z

Pam at 17:15, 25 September 2015

2015-09-25T17:15:49Z

Pam at 18:20, 24 September 2015

2015-09-24T18:20:56Z

Pam: /* Tea House, Chengdu, Night */

2015-09-23T20:00:12Z

Tea House, Chengdu, Night

Pam at 19:54, 23 September 2015

2015-09-23T19:54:40Z

Pam: /* =Tea House, Chengdu, Night */

2015-09-23T19:53:02Z

=Tea House, Chengdu, Night

Pam at 19:52, 23 September 2015

2015-09-23T19:52:01Z

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 [[Category:Episodes]]
-[[Category:The Venetian Cell|2.004]]
+[[Category:The Passengers|2.004]]
 [[Category:The Clan|2.004]]
 [[Category:The Age of Anne (1943-1953)]]

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 ''On 1 October 1949, Mao Zed-ong has proclaimed the PRC in Beijing. In a state of complete disarray, the remaining KMT troops have retreated to Sichuan. Chengdu is the last city to hold. An airlift to Taiwan is being secretly organized for senior officers and their families. Ao-nan, an officer close to the Chiang family developed an affair with Ju-ling, a very young Sichuan Opera performer. When offered the possibility to flee the mainland with her lover, she is confronted between her duty as a CCP covert agent to either kill him or marry him and leave her family and beliefs behind.
-[[The Hansa Way|<< PREVIOUS EPISODE]] - [[Made in Taiwan|NEXT EPISODE >>]]
+[[The Hansa Way|<< PREVIOUS EPISODE]] - [[Nest of Spies|NEXT EPISODE >>]]
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 The C-47 take off with Ju-ling, the presidential couple and a dozen chosen officials.
-[[The Hansa Way|<< PREVIOUS EPISODE]] - [[Made in Taiwan|NEXT EPISODE >>]]
+[[The Hansa Way|<< PREVIOUS EPISODE]] - [[Nest of Spies|NEXT EPISODE >>]]
 [[Category:Episodes]]

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 '''OUTLINE'''
-''[[Ao-nan|Ao-nan Wang]] convinces [[Ju-ling]] his Communist concubine to leave the Mainland with him.
+''[[Ao-nan|Wang Ao-nan]] convinces [[Ju-ling]] his Communist concubine to leave the Mainland with him.
 ''Ju-ling could be a descendent from Khazar refugees at the turn of the first millennium
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 ''Ju-ling is a vibrant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_Opera Sichuan Opera] performer.
-''Ju-ling met with Chiang Fang-liang ( born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, Jewish bride of Chang Kai-sheck's son) during the siege of the Chengdu Central Military Academy.
+''Ju-ling met with Chiang Fang-liang ( born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, Jewish bride of Chiang Kai-sheck's son) during the siege of the Chengdu Central Military Academy.
-''On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong has proclaimed the PRC in Beijing. In a state of complete disarray, the remaining KMT troops have retreated to Sichuan. Chengdu is the last city to hold. An airlift to Taiwan is being secretly organized for senior officers and their families. Ao-nan, an officer close to the Chiang family developed an affair with Ju-ling, a very young Sichuan Opera performer. When offered the possibility to flee the mainland with her lover, she is confronted between her duty as a CCP covert agent to either kill him or marry him and leave her family and beliefs behind.
+''On 1 October 1949, Mao Zed-ong has proclaimed the PRC in Beijing. In a state of complete disarray, the remaining KMT troops have retreated to Sichuan. Chengdu is the last city to hold. An airlift to Taiwan is being secretly organized for senior officers and their families. Ao-nan, an officer close to the Chiang family developed an affair with Ju-ling, a very young Sichuan Opera performer. When offered the possibility to flee the mainland with her lover, she is confronted between her duty as a CCP covert agent to either kill him or marry him and leave her family and beliefs behind.
 [[The Hansa Way|<< PREVIOUS EPISODE]] - [[Made in Taiwan|NEXT EPISODE >>]]
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 ====Main Hall, Opera House, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, November 25, 1949====
-The main hall of the Chengdu Opera House is dimly lit. A single spot illuminates the turquoise costume of the last standing character. [[Ju-ling]] has just poisoned her old husband in order to acquire his wealth. He is lying at her feet. The loud click of the shutting spot precedes the slow fade of the 5000Wincandescent  bulb. Vibrant applauds echo in the pitched black room. Ju-ling is frozen centre stage. -Should I do it tonight? What if I fail? What if I freeze? What if he kills me instead? Two [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lighting Neon Tubes] intermittently light up as soldiers open the side doors of the wooden building letting the cold winter air in. Ju-ling has left the stage. [[Ao-nan]] walks towards the backstage against the exiting crowd, mostly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revolutionary_Army NRA] officers, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang KMT] officials and relocated industrialists.
+The main hall of the Chengdu Opera House is dimly lit. A single spot illuminates the turquoise costume of the last standing character. [[Ju-ling]] has just poisoned her old husband in order to acquire his wealth. He is lying at her feet. The loud click of the shutting spot precedes the slow fade of the 5000W incandescent  bulb. Vibrant applauds echo in the pitched black room. Ju-ling is frozen centre stage. -Should I do it tonight? What if I fail? What if I freeze? What if he kills me instead? Two [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lighting Neon Tubes] intermittently light up as soldiers open the side doors of the wooden building letting the cold winter air in. Ju-ling has left the stage. [[Ao-nan]] walks towards the backstage against the exiting crowd, mostly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revolutionary_Army NRA] officers, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang KMT] officials and relocated industrialists.
 ====Backstage, Opera House====

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 -Don't worry mei-mei, he'll join you later. Nothing will happen to him, he'll probably be in Taipei for Christmas, before our New Year for sure. You want him to come, don't you?
-Ju-ling looks at the inscription painted under the cockpit: May-ling. How did a Christian concubine became so powerful? China's most influential woman. What's waiting for her on the other side of the Taiwan Straight?
+Ju-ling looks at the inscription painted under the cockpit: May-ling. How did a Christian concubine became so powerful? China's most influential woman. What's waiting for her on the other side of the Taiwan Strait?
 -Of course I do.

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 ====Tea House, Chengdu, Night====
-As Ju-ling turns onto a lane, a narrow door cracks open to let her in. Inside, she is lead by an old woman to the main room of a unlit tea house. Sitting at a table, tree CCP officials order her to join them.
+As Ju-ling turns onto a lane, a narrow door cracks open to let her in. Inside, she is lead by an old woman to the main room of a unlit tea house. Sitting at a table, three CCP officials order her to join them.
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	''Ju-ling met with Chiang Fang-liang ( born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, Jewish bride of Chang Kai-sheck's son) during the siege of the Chengdu Central Military Academy.		''Ju-ling met with Chiang Fang-liang ( born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, Jewish bride of Chang Kai-sheck's son) during the siege of the Chengdu Central Military Academy.
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	''On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong has proclaimed the PRC in Beijing. In a state of complete disarray, the remaining KMT troops have retreated to Sichuan. Chengdu is the last city to hold. An airlift to Taiwan is being secretly organized for senior officers and their families. Ao-nan, an officer close to the Chiang family developed an affair with Ju-ling, a very young Sichuan Opera performer. When offered the possibility to flee the mainland with her lover, she is confronted between her duty as a CCP covert agent to either kill him or marry him and leave her family and beliefs behind.		''On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong has proclaimed the PRC in Beijing. In a state of complete disarray, the remaining KMT troops have retreated to Sichuan. Chengdu is the last city to hold. An airlift to Taiwan is being secretly organized for senior officers and their families. Ao-nan, an officer close to the Chiang family developed an affair with Ju-ling, a very young Sichuan Opera performer. When offered the possibility to flee the mainland with her lover, she is confronted between her duty as a CCP covert agent to either kill him or marry him and leave her family and beliefs behind.

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 ''[[Ao-nan|Ao-nan Wang]] convinces [[Ju-ling]] his Communist concubine to leave the Mainland with him.
 ''Ju-ling could be a descendent from Khazar refugees at the turn of the first millennium
 ''Ju-ling is a vibrant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_Opera Sichuan Opera] performer.
 ''Ju-ling met with Chiang Fang-liang ( born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, Jewish bride of Chang Kai-sheck's son) during the siege of the Chengdu Central Military Academy.
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 -Chiang Ching-kuo. The General's son. He was very impressed by you. But I was not to bring him here. He's a vicious man. He has many mistresses. Maybe he would want to have you too.
--I don't like old men. You should have brought him. I would have entertained him. Maybe you would have become captain. I know how to treat old men... Like you...
+-I don't like old men but you should have brought him anyways. I would have entertained him. Maybe you would have become captain. I know how to treat old men... Like you...
 A moment passes. Ao-nan buttons his trousers.
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 Ju-ling discreetly exits the Opera House through a side door and ventures into the Chengdu night. From the other side of the paved road, a silhouette brushes against the walls. Hearing footsteps, Ju-ling nervously swivels her head towards the noise but as the darkness doesn't reveal any shadows, she continues on her frantic paths.
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