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The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell

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22: 360: 109:. In the play, Xiang Yu is surrounded by Liu Bang's forces and on the verge of total defeat, so he calls forth his horse and begs it to run away for the sake of its own safety. The horse refuses, against his wishes. He then calls for the company of his wife 113:. Realizing the dire situation that has befallen them, she begs to die alongside her master, but he strongly refuses this wish. Afterwards, as he is distracted, Yu commits suicide with Xiang Yu's sword. 178: 171: 164: 71: 425: 401: 203: 311: 375: 110: 118: 127: 219: 319: 394: 262: 254: 420: 188: 430: 270: 102: 8: 387: 284: 156: 43: 238: 211: 87: 371: 414: 292: 75: 67: 246: 83: 26: 106: 98: 21: 123: 94: 79: 51: 359: 148:
Eight Chinese Plays from the Thirteenth Century to the Present
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Peking opera
Chinese
pinyin
Chinese opera
Yang Xiaolou
Shang Xiaoyun
Beijing
Peking opera
Cantonese opera
Xiang Yu
Chu
Liu Bang
Han dynasty
Consort Yu
Farewell My Concubine
Lilian Lee
film adaptation of the same name
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Chu–Han Contention
The Great Conqueror's Concubine
White Vengeance
The Last Supper
The Battlefield
Han Liu Bang
The Story of Han Dynasty
The Conqueror's Story
The Myth

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