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Protests over Chinese ballet performing in Melbourne

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The staging of a Mao-era ballet in Australia has brought out protesters calling for it to be called off. Image: A guard stands before a portrait of Mao Zedong (AAP)


The Red Detachment of Women is playing in Melbourne, (through sat, feb 18) but its detractors say it romanticises the rise of communism and should not be performed in Australia.


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