In 2008, Kunqu opera was officially inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ...

It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.

Get away to France, China, Spain, and other international destinations at one of DC’s embassies. These cultural hubs have ...

"We taught them to sing the arias, dance with short spears ... It gave her great joy to see the foreign students present a Peking Opera show on campus after studying for just two weeks.

'The opening ceremony for the 2025-26 cultural exchange year with Japan and China was held on April 14 in Tokyo. Shown is a ...

China has more than 300 forms of traditional opera, of which Peking Opera is the most popular. Peking Opera evolved from Kunqu Opera, an even more ancient art of drama listed by UNESCO in 2001 ...

Peking opera is a performance art incorporating singing, reciting, acting, martial arts. Although widely practised throughout China, its performance centres on Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. Peking ...

1988 Hong Kong film follows Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the Peking opera school in Kowloon whose pupils included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Painted Faces is a dramatised biopic of Yu Jim-yuen ...

CHINA DAILY Today, Farewell My Concubine is widely popular as a representative piece of Mei Lanfang-style Peking Opera recognized for its arias and the heroine's sword dance. Shi has performed the ...

Peking Opera is one of the oldest and most popular forms of traditional Chinese opera. We watch young students at the capital’s prestigious Peking Opera School practising for a performance in ce ...