Pan Jinlian
In the post-May Fourth era, the influential playwright Ouyang Yuqian wrote the early modern drama "Pan Jinlian" in 1928, in which Pan is depicted as a free-spirited woman victimized by a male-dominated traditional society. He played the role of Pan Jinlian himself. A pingju version of the story was one of the roles played by Bai Yushuang in Shanghai in the 1930s.