The Qing Ding Pearl
The Qing Ding Pearl is a play about injustice and revenge. The Protagonist is Hsiao En, a poor fisherman who must pay unfair taxes to a greedy Chinese official. His adversary is Ting Yuan Wai, the antagonist, who sends his minions (his servant and his boxers) after Hsiao En to enforce and collect the unjust tax. The play is set in a fishing community in rural China sometime in the Northern Sung period from 960-1127 A.D; the capitol is the modern day city of Kaifeng. The theme of this play is quite simple: when people are pushed to their limits, they are capable of anything, even murder. The central conflict consists of fair versus unfair and oppression versus retaliation. The 'little guy' Hsiao En, taking on a corrupt corporation-like entity and overcoming this adversity from the help of his family (daughter Kuei-Ying).
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