Read:

Shapiro, Hugh. 2014. "Operatic Escapes: Performing Madness in Neuropsychiatric Beijing." In Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s, edited by Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman, 297-325. Leiden: Brill

In the article of "Operatic Escapes," how did the patients appropriate the cultural authority of the drama? How does the author explain the reasons that mentally ill patients took up operatic performance? What gave the power of operatic script?