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Authorities continue promoting "red songs" in
China
to celebrate the
Chinese Communist Party's
90-year anniversary. On May 8,
Song Zuying,
known as "mother of communist China,"
sang red songs in
Taipei Arena stadium.
Song, with the rank of a major-general in the army,
is also the rumored mistress of
former
CCP leader
Jiang Zemin.
The organizers said Soong's concert
costs an estimated NT$
100 million,
estimations were based on sponsorships
from 2-3 companies including
Shanxi Coals.
Taiwan Evergreen Marine and
EVA Air
sponsored tickets and container transportation.
One of Soong's four customized dresses
was embroidered with 10,
000 diamonds
valued at NT$ 1.84 million.
"
Fudge Master"
Zhao Benshan arrived to support.
Xinhua website published Soong's program
with 22 songs in total.
People's Daily overseas
commented that this program was designed
for the
United Front and its theme was
"to defeat and incorporate the
KMT."
The opening song "All
Birds Paying Homage To
Phoenix"
puts the
100 year old Republic of China
in a tricky position.
8000 free tickets were given away for
Mother's Day.
The Taiwan officials showing up seemed to worship
the "mother of communist China."
The second song was from a red opera,
"I pay
Tribute to
The Loved Ones With
Folk Songs",
has a libretto "singing is sharper than a steel knife."
Next was "
Good Day", praising a new "era",
a well-known song of Soong missing Jiang's regime.
"Song of
Coral" is a theme song from the opera
"Red Coral", performed by the
Navy Political
Opera
of
PLA in
1960s.
It was about a battle in which the CCP defeated KMT.
Soong, 45, was born in a poor
Miao family in
Hunan.
She got married in
1992.
At
Spring Festival Gala in
1991,
Jiang Zemin noticed her.
Soong is now a deputy chief of the
Art Troupe of
Navy's Political Dept.
with a salary of a Deputy-Corporal.
In
2002, Hunan folk booksellers published a book
about the Jiang-Soong scandal, titling it
"
Mother Of The
Country:
Soong Zuying".
The book didn't sit well with Jiang.
Writers and sellers, about 50 people, were arrested.
In 2004, Lu
Jiaping, a member of the
World War II
Research Institute in China, wrote to CCP's
Central
Committee and Political Consultative
Conference
in
National People's Congress, asking to investigate
the Jiang-Soong scandal.
The scandal included adultery,
holding concerts for Soong in
Vienna and
Sydney
with taxpayers' money, paying for her opera flings
with Navy expenditures,
and building the RMB3 billion
National Grand Theatre,
just to please Soong.
Commentator Zhuang Tianliang said,
Lu Jiaping revealed two major problems of Jiang:
his forged resume and his scandal with Soong.
Afterwards Lu disappeared for a few days.
It is said that he was taken away.
He returned safe and sound.
Someone high up in CCP's must have protected him,
as this involves an internal power struggle
amongst CCP's elite.
As revealed in the overseas book "Jiang Zemin",
Cheng Kejie, former vice-chairman of
NPC,
apparently showed affection towards Soong,
and was executed in
2000 for "corruption."
Zhao An, former director of Arts in
CCTV
and director of Spring Festival Gala for many years,
spread Jiang-Soong scandal.
Zhao was sentenced to 10 years, again for corruption.
In
2007, Soong appeared on
Yang Lan's
TV program
"
Women". In response to "all kinds of rumors",
she said: "I used to be upset,
but after some time, I just let it go."
If you search "Soong Zuying, Jiang" on Baidu,
China's largest search engine, you will find
countless articles on the two.
Some netizens said her son should be named
"
Soong Jiang", and the
National Theatre should be
renamed the "
National Brothel".
The book "Jiang Zemin" said,
in order to make Soong happy,
Jiang spent lots of treasury money on her.
Soong also tried her best to praise Jiang's rule.
Her songs are all glorifying the CCP and Jiang.
NTD reporters Li Yuanhan and
Zhou Tian
《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点
http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/
- published: 09 May 2011
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