Laughing General Yang Wusix

Author: Li Xuan, Huaiyu, Wang Han
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: My Yang Wulu is a bit vulgar, but my goal is to first draw the audience in, and there will be plenty of opportunities to adjust later. No matter what kind of art has an audience to watch, how can things go on! I am a native Hunanese, a "tugouzi" (local dog) not a "yanggouzi" (foreign dog)! We have been collaborating for 25 years, and we only argued once because our performance schedules conflicted. We reconciled the very next night. It's actually longer than some couples have been together! — Zhou Weixing
Yang Teacher is our grandmaster; without him, there wouldn't be us today. — Da Bing
Yang Zhichun was the first person in our crosstalk circle to perform in karaoke bars and one of the earliest to get rich. I still remember him counting money, dramatically saying to me, "I've never seen so much money before!" — Qi Zhi
This book is a photographic and written biography of the artistic life of Yang Wulu, the father of Xiang-style crosstalk. It includes three parts: Artistic Life, Good Yang Wulu, and Reminiscences and Commentaries.