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

"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.

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

'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 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 ...

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 ...