China National Beijing Opera Company, China's leading Peking Opera company, bought the rights to Kingdom of Desire, a stage play created by Taiwan's Contemporary Legend Theater, for RMB400,000, and performed the work three times last September in Beijing without making a single change to the original script, music, lighting, or costumes. They also hired Wu Hsing-kuo to spend two months in Beijing directing the production.
去年，大陸京劇龍頭老大中國京劇院，花費人民幣四十萬，買下《慾望城國》這齣戲的版權。九月在北京保利大劇院演出三場，劇本、音樂、燈光及服裝完全採用台灣當代傳奇劇場的原設計，並且把當代傳奇劇場總監吳興國請到北京導戲兩個月。