I used to listen to Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy all the time. I had no idea he didn’t make that title up.

Turns out, he got it from a Mao-era Peking Opera. The image above is the book of postcards from the show. Here’s the description:

The modern revolutionary Peking opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy”, carefully revised, perfected and polished to the last detail with our great leader Chairman Mao’s loving care, now glitters with surpassing splendour… [It] is a splendid victory for Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line on literature and art.

See the postcards and read the plot summary here.