The White-Haired Girl is a modern revolutionary ballet created by Shanghai's revolutionary art and literary workers during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. More people are now able to enjoy this excellent piece of ballet art.

Originally an opera, The White-Haired Girl was one of the most popular theatrical works in the old liberated areas in the 1940s. It depicts the poor peasants struggle against the landlords in north China during the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-45), their liberation and their punishment of a traitorous despot-landlord with the help of the Eighth Route Army.

The ballet was created from the opera. Compared with the opera, it brings into greater prominence the theme of class struggle armed struggle and Party leadership. First presented in 1965, the ballet was made into a documentary film from television screen in 1970.