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1969 THE PEKING OPERA 123 These splendid results of the revolution of Peking Opera have shaken the entire fields of arts like a spring thunder, indicating that it is now time for the 100 flowers of the proletariat to bloom. . .. The great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought has now been hoisted high over the opera stage. . . . The position for spreading feudalism and capitalism has been turned into one for the propagation of Mao Tse-tung's thought. This is a great victory for Chainnan Mao's revolutionary line on literature and art, an earth-shaking transformation. It proves to the masses that the great thought of Mao Tse-tung is all-conquering. Can there possibly be any other old fortress that cannot be taken now that we have succeeded in taking the fortress of Peking opera ... which was under the control of the counter-revolutionary revisionists and where the old forces were most stubborn?40 MARY GRACE SWIFT NOTE The editors of Comparative Drama wish to announce a special fall issue on the "Theatre of the Absurd: Slavic and Western," with E. JCzerwinski as guest editor. Copies will be available by mail to nonsubscribers at $2.00 each and may be ordered from the Editors, Department of English, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001. 40 "Hail the Tremendous Victories in the Revolution of Peking Opera," Hun~­ Ch'; (No.6. April, 1967), in Selections from China Mainland Magazines (No. 575. May 16, 1967), p. 12. ...