Li Zhengkuan performs the lead role in the new Peking Opera Ma Jiefu. [Photo/China Daily] Household names. Jingge－songs that ...

Zou Yuhan, an actor from the Hubei Provincial Opera Institute, performs Han Opera. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn] When mentioning the Peking Opera, a few key words come to mind for most ...

Professor Sun Ping, a female Peking Opera master and dean and doctoral tutor of the Art Research School of Beijing Foreign Studies University, speaks at the opening of the first Fu Lian Cheng ...

BEIJING — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and ...

Peking Opera is not only a mode of cross-cultural communication, but also an emotional bond that connects overseas Chinese with their ancestral homeland. Peking Opera performer Zhang Yanyan has been ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow arm of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

"Well done! But don't sing too high here," says director Yang Chi of Dalian Peking Opera Theater. The instructions seem to echo around the ornate theater where the director often goes to see ...

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, CIMU sponsored and co-hosted two events on Feb 4 and Feb 5: a fabulous Chinese New Year Celebration Concert in Hall Auditorium and a family-friendly Chinese New ...

BEIJING — Qiu Jirong sits at a mirror in his dressing room, painstakingly applying his theater makeup. First the white, then firm strokes of gold, black and finally red -- the face paint that will ...