Shanghai Ballet laying the ground for battlefield story

Wang Anyi, a renowned novelist in Shanghai and daughter of Ru, adapted her mother's story for ballet theater. "I am grateful that so many years after my mother's death in 1998, people still remember this story that she wrote at a fairly young age."

It is a youthful story featuring the emotional contacts and sparkles between the three people, full of passionate and truthful love in the shadows of the war, said Xin Lili, director of Shanghai Ballet.