The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...

Tik Ka’s usual style runs toward dreamy pastel colors and cute, big-eyed portraits, but his fanart is a little different. Inspired by the elaborate costumes and makeup of Chinese opera, his versions ...

The artistry of beauty and cosmetics has a millennia-long history in China; and in recent years, “Chinese Beauty” has seen something of a renaissance within the country, and those products and trends ...

War. Rape. Refugees. Conflicting cultures and religions. If this sounds like 2016 to you, you’re right. It’s also what was happening in 177 A.D., when a Chinese heroine was born who’s the star of ...

When a staging of the classic Chinese opera “Farewell My Concubine” performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company sold out at Princeton University in September 2017, Jianping Mei, a 1990 graduate ...

A local Chinese opera group is breathing new life into two ancient tales. “Women in Times of War,” presented by Hwa Sheng Chinese Opera Club in Seattle, will showcase two popular stories from the ...

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema, which began in 1905 with the film “Dingjun Mountain.” Fittingly for a country with a rich, centuries-old opera tradition, this first domestic ...

When she was 8 years old, Xichen Xu left her small-town home to study the erhu, a traditional spike fiddle, in the big city of Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital. She performed for nine years in an ensemble ...