Liao Tianding

Liao Tianding (廖添丁) is a legendary Taiwanese Robin Hood figure who foiled oppressive rulers when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.[1]

Liao Tianding was the subject of an extremely popular modern dance composition by Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan.[2] He was also the inspiration for Ma Shui-Lung's Liao Tianding Orchestral Suite, which has been recorded by the Prague Symphony Orchestra.[3]

Liao Tianding Wanted Order

Notes

  1. ↑ "In the footsteps of Taiwan’s Robin Hood," The China Post, November 15, 2007
  2. ↑ Yang, Meng-Yu (1998). Cloud Nine:Lin Hwai-Min and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. Taipei: Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si. pp. 139–142.
  3. ↑ "廖添丁管弦樂組曲 : 馬水龍作曲 / 捷克布拉格交響樂團 演奏, 馬水龍 作曲," Institut fur Sinologie, Universitat Heidelberg

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