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The Memorial Hall of Shangjiabang Revolutionary History is located in the Shajiabang Scenic Area&#160;沙家浜景区 in the southeast of the city of Changshu&#160;常熟.&#160;Shajiabang was part of the guerrilla base, where the local resistance force Jiangkang&#160;江抗&#160;(Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army 江南抗日义勇军), subsequently incorporated into the New Fourth Army, fought against the Japanese Invaders in the intricate waterways of the area. In 1939 more than thirty wounded and sick Jiangkang soldiers could not move on with their troops. They stayed in the area of Shajiabang, were cared for by local residents, and organized more resistance activities.  The story of these soldiers was put on stage by Shanghai People’s Hu Opera 沪剧 Troupe in 1958 as Sparks amid the Reeds 芦荡火种. In October 1963, the First Peking Opera Company adapted it as a Peking opera, staging it first in 1964. According to Bell Yung, “After undergoing several drastic revisions in 1965 and receiving its present name, Shajiabang became one of the handful of model operas” (149). In 1968 the model/revolutionary opera Shajiabang was filmed and broadcast nationwide, making it a household story. It also had a symphonic suite version and many versions in other local operas.The story of the model/revolutionary opera is set in Shajiabang in the early 1940s. A group of wounded New Fourth Army soldiers, led by Commissar Guo Jianguang&#160;郭建光, is hiding from the Japanese and Nationalist troops near Shajiabang. Sister A Qing 阿庆嫂&#160;is an underground agent of the CCP who runs a local tea shop as cover. With the help of local residents and her own intelligence, she manages to protect the wounded soldiers from the Japanese invaders and Commander Hu and Advisor Diao of the Nationalist forces. Commissar Guo and his soldiers survive all adversities and return to Shajiabang to wipe out the enemy (Yung 149).&#160;Picture 1: Script of the Peking opera&#160;Shajiabang&#160;(1965)The exhibition hall of Shajiabang revolutionary history was built by the local government in 1988. It was rebuilt into a memorial hall in the center of the Shajiabang Scenic Area in 2001, with monuments, a square, group statues featuring the fictional figures of Guo Jianguang, Sister A Qing, etc.&#160;The memorial hall underwent another renovation in 2006, expanding into an area of 6,400 square meters, with exhibitions thematizing Shajiabang revolutionary history, the well-known Peking opera, and current Shajiabang. The memorial hall was declared a national-level demonstration base for patriotism education (全国爱国主义教育示范基地) in 2001.&#160;If revolutionary operas with all their related products (comic books, plates, cups, ceramic figures, calendars) formed a process of what Barbara Mittler calls “ideological branding” (378), then the memorial hall of Shajiabang Revolutionary History exemplifies what we may term “Red Classics branding” in the more literal sense of marketing, because the memorial hall reinvents the local history of Shajiabang through the prism of a&#160;cultural product of Red Classics in order to develop its current tourism.&#160;Bibliography:Changshu zhengxie wenshi gongzuo weiyuanhui&#160;常熟市政协文史工作委员会 (2005):&#160;Changshu Culture and History No. 34:&#160;Shajiabang&#160;a Red Classic 常熟文史第34辑&#160;红色经典沙家浜. Changshu.&#160;Mittler, Barbara (2010):&#160;&#160;“ ‘Eight Stage Works for 800 Million People’: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Music – A View from Revolutionary Opera.”&#160; In: The Opera Quarterly&#160;vol. 26 (2-3): 377-401.&#160;Yung, Bell (1984):&#160;&#160;“Model Opera as Model: From&#160;Shajiabang&#160;to&#160;Sagabong.” In:&#160;Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979. Ed. Bonnie S. McDougall. Berkeley: University of California Press. 144-164.List of Pictures:Featured Image: Tourists take a boat tour to experience moving amid the reeds in the Shajiabang scenic area.  Source: Sina Blog of Zhuxiang xieshi 竹香榭士 (27-03-2016): http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_60a9fa890102w5vp.html.