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From the liner notes

Yang Ban Xi was a series of propaganda productions (movie musicals, ballets, operas) made during China's Cultural Revolution and overseen by Madame Mao. These gorgeous Technicolor extravaganzas of rifle-toting, dancing proletariat "once the bane of serious artists who reviled the form as despicable, propagandistic trash which threatened their livelihood" have been embraced, celebrated, and re-enacted by today's Chinese youth as "kultural kitsch."