Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting, currently appearing in The Masked Heroine, started training in the art form in her ...

In a breakneck digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing. This is a photo gallery curated ...

Professor Sun Ping, dean of the Art Research School of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Liu Tong, president of the Jingju Theater, present letters of appointment for the teachers of the program ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a ...

Opera actors perform "Triple Attempts to Steal the Nine-dragon Goblet" at the Chang'an Grand Theater in Beijing, March 14, 2021. [Photo courtesy of BFSU] Two unique Peking Opera comic shows were ...

Peking Opera actress Ding Yunyun shows a movement to students at the Linheli Primary School in Beijing's Tongzhou district. Photos by Zhu Xingxin / China Daily Hundreds of primary students embrace the ...

A show at Beijing's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center slated for May 6 - part of the 18th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival - promises to be a feast for fans of the ancient art. Chen Nan reports With ...

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 ...

On a Sunday afternoon in Beijing, applause rises from a modern theatre as Zhang Wanting performs a breathtaking pose in The ...

From time to time, the secrecy that shrouds Red China is parted by events, and between the curtains the world suddenly gets a glimpse of what Peking’s potentates are about. Last week was one of those ...

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