Kunpeng Breaks the Waves

The play tells the story of Mao Zedong's journey from graduating from Hunan First Normal University in 1918 to joining a major party institution in 1921. During this period, great changes took place in China. The New Culture Movement set off a trend of Western learning spreading eastward. The dawn of Marxism shone into China for the first time. The May Fourth Movement raised high the banner of freedom and democracy. The smoke of warlords' melee aggravated the suffering of the Chinese people... On this turbulent historical stage, various forces are surging, the strange current situation is full of fog, and the fate of the country and the nation is like a small boat in the cold wind. Life and death can only happen in a moment. In the past few years, when the country was in crisis, Mao Zedong had great ambitions and perseverance to find a way to save the country and the people, and gradually grew from a young student to a staunch Marxist. Through events such as Mao Zedong's journey to the Northeast to seek truth, organizing young students to go to France for work-study studies, leading the anti-Zhang movement in Hunan, founding the "Xiangjiang Review", launching the student movement and labor movement, and forming the Hunan Communist Group, the play records the touching story of how Mao Zedong found Marxism among the numerous and complex isms and fought for it throughout his life.