He danced leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, the Nutcracker, the White-haired Girl, The Butterfly Lovers, Coppelia, La Sylphide, Sleeping Beauty, The Latest Time, etc.

The repertory dwindled to just two sanctioned ballets - The Red Detachment of Women and The White-Haired Girl - and the company travelled in a punishing schedule around the country, often on foot and carrying their own baggage.

White-Haired Girl at Yan'an Lu Xun Art Academy After founding of the PRC, 1949:

Chunhua prepares to perform The White-Haired Girl for country folks at Zhejiang.

The ballet had a genuinely creative sensibility, quite different from "The White-Haired Girl," seen with the same company in Toronto in the 1970's.

He was one of the composers at the original revolutionary Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an and one of the collaborators assisting Ma Ke in composition of 1945's The White-Haired Girl.

"That's from 'The White-Haired Girl,' "Anchee says.

By contrast, when you see 'The White-Haired Girl' or 'The Red Detachment of Women' [ two officially sanctioned ballets from the era of the Cultural Revolution ] , there is no way that's not Western ballet.

Unlike other ballets, the music of The White-Haired Girl is more like that of a musical, i.e., it blends a large number of vocal passages, both solos on the part of Xi'er and choruses into the music.

Hua's 1981 comic book, White-haired Girl won Second National Assessment by the first painting prize.