Foreign diplomats watch play marking victory

Diplomats from 55 countries, including Russia, Australia and Germany, stationed in Beijing were invited to view a Chinese play The Night at the Fragrant Hills, at the Beijing People's Art Theater on Tuesday.

The 114 diplomats watched as the play, with English subtitles, relayed events of the night right after the People's Liberation Army occupied Nanjing, declaring the collapse of reactionary Kuomintang rule, in April 1949.

The liberation of Nanjing is a highly symbolic event in the history of the Party, the military and the nation.