The story of Jiang Jie is well known in China. The female martyr, whose real name was Jiang Zhuyun, was born in 1920 in Southwest China's Sichuan province and joined the Communist Party of China when she was 19.
Just two hours after sales began online on Friday, tickets for six out of the 10 scheduled performances of stage play The Awakening Age, an adaptation of the hit TV series of the same name, had sold out.
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