Mei Lanfang as the Queen in the Sword Dance Sequence
of Hegemon King Says Farewell to his Queen
 

Xiang Yu, the Hegemon King of Chu from Bawang bieji
(Hegemon King Says Farewell to His Queen)
 

Mei Langfang as Mu-Lan, the Disguised Warrior Maiden
 

Mei Langfang as Zhao Yanrong in the Beijing Opera Yuzhou feng (Sword of the Universe)
 

Hsueh Yen-chin as Pai Su-chen, the White Snake Lady
 

Zhao Dan in the title role of the film Lin Zexu (The Opium War), 1959
 

The central figure in Liu Sanjie (Third Sister Liu), 1960
 

The "revolutionary family" walk to their execution in Hongdeng ji (The Red Lantern),
a yangban xi, or "modern revolutionary Peking Opera," 1970
 

Ying Ruocheng, renowned actor and China's vice minister for culture in the performing arts
and arts education (c. 1989)
 

Ying Ruocheng as Willy Loman in his acclaimed translation of Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman, directed by Miller himself
 

Cast of Puppet Man, an experimental play in Taiwan by Chin Shih-chieh, 1982
Lan Ling Theater Workshop
 

Xiyou ji (Journey to the West), a modern opera by Lai Sheng-Chuan (Stan Lai), 1988
 

Lai Sheng-chuan (Stan Lai), founder and artistic director of the
Performance Workshop in Taiwan
 

Kitchen Farce, adapted for the Performance Workshop from
Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular by Stan Lai
 

Scene from Beiqing chengshi (A City of Sadness), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989
 

Scene from Erzide da wan'ou (The Sandwichman), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983
 

Scene from Lianlian fengchen (Dust in the Wind), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1987
(the actor on the right is traditional puppetmaster Li Tianlu)
 

Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi in the 1993 film Bawang bieji (Farewell My Concubine),
directed by Chen Kaige
 

Chen Kaige, director of Bawang bieji
 

Jackie Chan in Jingcha gushi 3:  Chaoji jingcha (Police Story III:  Supercop),
1992, directed by Stanley Tong
 

Danny Lee and Chow Yunfat in the 1989 John Woo thriller
Diexie shuangxiong (The Killer)