By Haiping Yan
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44 Moreover, the place where the story takes place is "across countries and continents, unconstrained by specific locations," implying that this protest is relevant to cultures and socie- Page xxvi ties everywhere. 45 The "fallen" woman, Pan Jinlian, viewed as one among all the women in the world who have suffered male oppression, is reevaluated from cross-national, transhistorical, and multicultural perspectives as the victim of patriarchal power structures. Compared with such plays as WM that also incorporate traditional Chinese and Western modernist techniques, Pan Jinlian, with a regional music form and folk-style language familiar to Chinese audiences in both urban and rural areas, appears more coherent and complete in its aesthetic stylization and more dynamic and effective in its dramatization.
Registering such sentiments of experimental modernism as an ever growing sense of alienation among once genuinely connected characters, the play is Page xxii at the same time suffused with a longing for social justice, equality, and the ideals that informed most plays of critical realism in the early 1980s. The reform era in WM is no longer an imagined future invested with hope for socialist democracy (as in Small Well) belief in the "laws of history" in accordance with which the will of the commoners prevails (as in Li Shimin) or desires of romantic individualism (as in Bus Stop) The reform era in the play has turned into a trying reality in which some old problems persist and new problems emerge while drastic social changes dislocate everyone and redefine everything.
This is the lesson that Li Shimin learned from his experiences as one of the founding generals of the Tang dynasty as well as from his understanding of history, this is the core of his thoughts on policymaking and governing. Those who respond to the needs of the Page xv people will govern, and those who ignore the needs of the people will perish. In the past, in the present, as in the future, even the greatest leaders of our nation have to be tested and judged by this basic law of historical process.