Comments on: Leni Riefenstahl meets Busby Berkeley http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/05/leni-riefenstahl-meets-busby-berkeley/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jon Fernquest http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/05/leni-riefenstahl-meets-busby-berkeley/comment-page-1/#comment-48192 Jon Fernquest Fri, 18 May 2007 07:31:23 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/05/leni-riefenstahl-meets-busby-berkeley/#comment-48192 Interesting that that warlordism was exploited for its sensational, exotic dimension. A similar politically-oriented stage play in Burma during the 1950s by then Prime Minister U Nu on Communist Insurgents was more an exercise in moralizing, but it was adapted into a mass market film produced in Pasadena that probably made it sexier, to bad it doesn't exist anymore. Before his reelection in 1961 he wrote another play that is actually very lurid with Communist insurgents picking up on their students and the crooked Interior Minister cohabiting with a prostitute, kind of lurid sensationalism under the guise of moralising. If you can read Burmese, I put I online: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/jfernquest/thaka_ala.pdf Interesting that that warlordism was exploited for its sensational, exotic dimension.

A similar politically-oriented stage play in Burma during the 1950s by then Prime Minister U Nu on Communist Insurgents was more an exercise in moralizing, but it was adapted into a mass market film produced in Pasadena that probably made it sexier, to bad it doesn’t exist anymore.

Before his reelection in 1961 he wrote another play that is actually very lurid with Communist insurgents picking up on their students and the crooked Interior Minister cohabiting with a prostitute, kind of lurid sensationalism under the guise of moralising. If you can read Burmese, I put I online:
http://www.angelfire.com/linux/jfernquest/thaka_ala.pdf

]]> By: Yan Xishan http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/05/leni-riefenstahl-meets-busby-berkeley/comment-page-1/#comment-47535 Yan Xishan Mon, 14 May 2007 22:25:47 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/05/leni-riefenstahl-meets-busby-berkeley/#comment-47535 Thanks for drawing my attention to this text--it looks fascinating. However, IMHO killing warlords is always, always wrong. Thanks for drawing my attention to this text–it looks fascinating. However, IMHO killing warlords is always, always wrong.

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